Men and women Quotes - page 11
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
I can
Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them,
Like men besides, like men in light secluded,
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
There are very few men who do not reckon the cost to themselves of a system of taxes before approving it.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Almost all men improve on acquaintance.
...Sometimes with men, their pride can override their hearts..."
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.
Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work...
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
Men and nations can only be reformed in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.