Quotes
Quotes about Men
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Nothing is so galling to a people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Oh! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands and your feet and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?
Pouter, tumbler and fantail are from the same source;
The racer and hack may be traced to one horse;
So men were developed from monkeys of course,
Which nobody can deny.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
I fill this cup to one made up
Of loveliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given
A form so fair, that, like the air,
'T is less of earth than heaven.
Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy,
And always blind, and often tipsy;
Sometimes for years and years together,
She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather,
Bestowing honour, pudding, pence,
You can't imagine why or whence;--
Then in a moment--Presto, pass!--
Your joys are withered like the grass;
Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine:
There's life and strength in every drop,--thanksgiving to the vine!
That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Men are better than their theology.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Shallow men believe in luck.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours.
Advance! spare not! nor look behind!
Plow deep and straight with all your powers!
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
