Quotes
Quotes about Men
Are you good men and true?
You shall comprehend all vagrom men.
If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!
Men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel.
'T is all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.
You two are book-men.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
When daisies pied and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men.
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Men in great place are thrice servants,--servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
