Quotes
Quotes about Men
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry. Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing.
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.
An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.
Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
