Men Quotes

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

Let the end try the man.

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

...an old man is twice a child.

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

How slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a stepdame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue.

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

Let each man do his best.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.