Quotes
Quotes about Men
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Success has made failures of many men.
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
"If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an, Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
