Men Quotes
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.