Quotes
Quotes about Men
I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.
The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Little said is soonest mended.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink,--
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended; I have given; I have kept; I have possessed; I do possess; I have lost; I am punished. What I formerly expended, I have; what I gave away, I have."
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
They tell me every day is there
Not more nor less than Sunday gay;
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way.
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon,
A bishop and two generals!
What joy to be in Carcassonne!
Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
