"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Men More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste." "No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others." "Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home." More In Men "Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead."― Augustus Y. Napier "What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."― Susan Sontag "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."― Blaise Pascal