Quotes
Quotes about Man
Nowher so besy a man as he ther n’ as,
And yet he semed besier than he was.
Who so shall telle a tale after a man,
He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,
Everich word, if it be in his charge,
All speke he never so rudely and so large;
Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,
Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.
Ther n’ is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily.
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.
Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay
To do the gentil dedes that he can,
And take him for the gretest gentilman.
Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.
For of fortunes sharpe adversite,
The worst kind of infortune is this,--
A man that hath been in prosperite,
And it remember whan it passed is.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.
The tide tarrieth no man.
So many heads so many wits.
Happy man, happy dole.
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Many small make a great.
But in deede,
A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
Many hands make light warke.
It is better to be
An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
Every man for himselfe and God for us all.
