Quotes
Quotes about Men
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on waterâan inch deep and then the mud.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.
D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents Ont mene la charrue. Mais, las de cultiver enfin La terre labouree L'une a detele le matin, L'autre l'apres-dinee.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
