Men and women Quotes - page 15
Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
Few men have been admired by their own households.
The old man ... said ... the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls.
What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.