Quotes
Quotes about Men
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?" -Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
