Pietro Aretino quote: "Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit...
PARKER POSEY

If you are empty with no values inside or no core, men can choose you and your body can temporarily ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY

If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me,...
MEGHAN MARKLE

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The liv...
JESSE OWENS

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you'...
ROBERT CRUMB

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those o...
JAMES E. FAUST

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business...
DANNY MEYER

Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or somethin...
ELSA HOSK

He always seemed to come through with big hits and big plays. He was a tough guy to get out, and mor...
DON MATTINGLY

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want...
STEVIE NICKS

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of tha...
TIM FERRISS

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men ...
YOSHIDA KENKō

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men...
KENKO YOSHIDA

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an au...
SCOTT ELLIS

Yes, we love the good men in our lives and sometimes, oftentimes, the bad ones too- but that we're n...
JESSICA VALENTI

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, p...
ROBERT SCOBLE

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

If you want to be great, you must learn the secret of great men.
SUNDAY ADELAJA

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the righ...
SHERYL SANDBERG

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up o...
TOM HIDDLESTON

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right t...
VALERIE JUNE

There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and strong...
KACY CATANZARO

I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.

If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young m...
HILL HARPER

Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you’re bursti...
JONATHAN TROPPER

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because the...
JACKEE HARRY

I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the...
KRISTEN SCHAAL

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
LITTLE RICHARD

The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment ...
LARRY COHEN

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food i...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardin...
MITT ROMNEY

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins)....
MARY-LOUISE PARKER

If you can get out of it with one [run] scoring, you did a great job. You want to keep all three fro...
JOE NATHAN

I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from th...
MANDY PATINKIN

I'll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I'll want to do something random with ballet, and...
SASHA LANE

Ladies, let me clue you in on a little secret...Men are not dolls and they don't need us to take car...
JOY MANISCALCO

Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I k...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you ...
JOSE GARCES

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't f...
IGGY POP

Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of u...
YOSHIDA KENKO

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee ...
SASHA ALEXANDER

Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it ...
DADA BHAGWAN

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You&...
BOB DOLE

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I'm concerned that we're sending these military men... facing an infectious disease that cou...
JEFF DUNCAN

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ...
BIBLE

These guys are all better hitters than we're going to face in the season, so it helps me work on a f...
AARON COOK

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was ofte...
A. S. BYATT

Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot ...
HOWARD HAWKS

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the larges...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the pac...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is alte...
FRANCIS BACON

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work...
CAROL ROTH

You want sensitive and understanding, stick with the therapist.You want great,
headbanging sex,...
JENNIFER CRUSIE

You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants...
LONI LOVE

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or...
EMILIA FOX

You come in here on their home field and you know it's going to be a battle. We were fortunate to ge...
DAVID HOLT

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire un...
LIONEL SUGGS

When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm...
BEN LOVETT

In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investmen...
JIM LOEHR

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've g...
EWAN MCGREGOR

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for...
MIKE POMPEO

Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of v...
EMMA CLINE

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
CATE BLANCHETT

I totally remember what it felt like to be so full.” “Full of what?” “I don't know. Full of ...
JONATHAN TROPPER

Can you explain something to me? ... When these guys had some money, how come they couldn't pay to g...
FUNKMASTER FLEX

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortune...
ARISTOTLE

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information...
DAVID BLUNKETT

The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just ...
KEN KESEY

I train in the mornings, and I'll eat two breakfasts. I'll have waffles with flax seed and a...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,...
ALAN WATTS

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you're like, '...
TOM BRADY

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

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