Quotes
Quotes about Men
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
In New Yorkâwhose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shameânot an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
Let but the commons hear this testament, Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read, And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Upon their issue.
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great And to be really great are just the same?
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.
