Quotes
Quotes about Men
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis; Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni Majus tormentus.]
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie. Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved: So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love. [Lat., Lumine Acon dextre,--capta est Leonilla sinistre, Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees: Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori, Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.]
Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven once saw Which North and South do bound, The stars above would make thee known, If men here silent were; The sun himself cannot forget His fellow traveller.
And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all, Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:" And thine epitaph shall be-- "He was wretched ev'n as we;" And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.
This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.".
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]
