Quotes
Quotes about Men
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,--avarice.
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exit.
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
The best of men
That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
Women wear the breeches.
Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain.... And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
