Men Quotes

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

Words are women, deeds are men.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

At dinner my man appeares.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.