The covetous man. [ Horace ]
Manners make a man. [ Proverb ]
Home makes the man. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Art not thou a man? [ Bible ]
The mind is the man. [ Proverb ]
Right wrongs no man. [ Proverb ]
Time is man's angel. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
To every man his due. [ Motto ]
As a man is friended,
So the law is ended. [ Proverb ]
A good man never dies. [ Callimachus ]
Every man has his way. [ Ter ]
A god-intoxicated man. [ Novalis, of Spinoza ]
Man is man everywhere. [ Carlyle ]
An old man among boys. [ Proverb ]
Like master, like man. [ Proverb ]
Thou sick man's health! [ Cowley ]
One man's breath
Is another man's death. [ Proverb ]
Patience with poverty
Is a poor man's remedy.
Every man hath his lot. [ Proverb ]
A man can die but once. [ William Shakespeare ]
Arms and the man I sing. [ Virgil ]
Let the end try the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
A true man hates no one. [ Napoleon ]
Woman is the lesser man. [ Tennyson ]
He is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all. [ Wordsworth ]
Remember thou art a man.
Every man has his value. [ French Proverb ]
Man's word is God in man. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The bell strikes one.
We take no note of time,
But from its loss,
To give it then a tongue,
Is wise in man. [ Young ]
At dinner my man appears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A sadder and a wiser man.
He rose the morrow morn. [ Coleridge ]
A man can never thrive
Who hath a wasteful wife. [ Proverb ]
Every man is a hypocrite. [ Frederick IV ]
Wine shews what a man is. [ Proverb ]
The garment makes the man. [ Proverb ]
I have had,
is a poor man. [ German Proverb ]
My man's as true as steel. [ William Shakespeare ]
Adversity flatters no man. [ Proverb ]
Woman is the heart of man. [ Leroux ]
Only the bad man is alone. [ Diderot ]
Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him. [ George Herbert ]
A dumb man never gets land. [ Proverb ]
Remember you are but a man. [ Proverb ]
The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day. [ Milton ]
Woman is the Sunday of man. [ Michelet ]
Man proposes, God disposes. [ German Proverb ]
No man cries stinking fish. [ Proverb ]
A man's house is his castle. [ Proverb ]
Go West, young man! Go West. [ John L. B. Soule ]
A wilful man never wants wo. [ Proverb ]
Why should a rich man steal? [ Proverb ]
Every man has his weak side. [ J. T. Headley ]
Every great man is a unique. [ Emerson ]
An old man is twice a child. [ Shakespeare ]
Woman: man's first domicile. [ Diderot ]
Economy, the poor man's mint. [ Tupper ]
Man proposeth; God disposeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The world is bound to no man. [ Proverb ]
Just education forms the man. [ Gay ]
Wisdom - a man's best friend. [ Gladstone ]
Man cannot choose his duties. [ George Eliot ]
Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim;
What's he to me or I to him? [ Churchill ]
Hope is the poor man's bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No man can serve two masters. [ Jesus ]
Time stoops to no man's lure. [ Swinburne ]
Once a man and twice a child. [ Proverb ]
A man addicted to every lust.
A wise man is a great wonder. [ Proverb ]
As is the man, so is his God. [ Rückert, Goethe ]
The night is no man's friend. [ Baron Grimm ]
Calamity was ordained for man. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Today a man, tomorrow a mouse. [ Proverb ]
If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage.
They cannot seek his hand. [ Bryant ]
A proud man hath many crosses. [ Proverb ]
A little man fells a tall oak. [ French Proverb ]
No man is a hero to his valet. [ Mme. de Cornuel ]
Night is the clever man's day. [ Al-Barmaki ]
Love and envy make a man pine. [ Proverb ]
Hope is a working-man's dream. [ Pliny ]
Every man hath his own planet. [ Proverb ]
For Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God. [ Owen Meredith ]
If I had known,
is a poor man. [ German Proverb ]
The gravest fish is an oyster,
The gravest bird's an owl,
The gravest beast's an ass,
And the gravest man's a fool. [ Proverb ]
Blame is the lazy man's wages. [ Danish Proverb ]
Love of wit makes no man rich. [ Proverb ]
Every ill man hath his ill day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There's mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought,
Gives even affliction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot. [ William Cowper ]
Time and tide tarry for no man. [ Proverb ]
The wise man is seldom prudent. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Love is a secret no man knows
Till it within his bosom glows. [ Proverb ]
The mind of the man is the man. [ Motto ]
A young man ought to be modest. [ Plaut ]
Man is more than constitutions. [ Whittier ]
It is the lot of man to suffer. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
No man is born wise or learned. [ Proverb ]
A wise man may learn of a fool. [ French Proverb ]
Ability is a poor man's wealth. [ Matthew Wren ]
The child is father of the man. [ Wordsworth ]
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die. [ Wordsworth ]
A man's destiny is always dark. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No man can tether time or tide. [ Robert Burns ]
A man's fate is his own temper. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
A man surprised is half beaten. [ Proverb ]
A wilful man must have his way. [ Proverb ]
Plain as a nose in a man's face. [ Rabelais ]
A poor man gets a poor marriage. [ Proverb ]
A man's gift makes room for him. [ Proverb ]
An inch in a man's nose is much. [ Proverb ]
Envy never yet enriched any man. [ Proverb ]
An honest man is always a child. [ Martial ]
Brutes leave ingratitude to man. [ Colton ]
Every man has his appointed day. [ Virgil ]
Man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not - Art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow? [ Burns ]
A man of cruelty is God's enemy. [ Proverb ]
A horse made, and a man to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fear that man who fears not God. [ Abdl-el-Kader ]
No man in his senses will dance. [ Cicero ]
A wise man's loss is his secret. [ Proverb ]
Piety enjoins no man to be dull. [ South ]
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]
Every mote does not blind a man. [ Proverb ]
Man is frail, and prone to evil. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Celerity is the lazy man's enemy. [ R. Lowe ]
Man's work lasts till set of sun;
Woman's work is never done. [ Proverb ]
Wine turns a man inside outwards. [ Proverb ]
God created man in his own image. [ Bible ]
A man may buy even gold too dear. [ Proverb ]
A gallant man is above ill words. [ Selden ]
Hope is the dream of a man awake. [ French Proverb ]
A pedant is a precocious old man. [ De Boufflers ]
I profess not talking: only this.
Let each man do his best. [ Shakespeare ]
The proud man is forsaken of God. [ Plato ]
A plague of sighing and grief!
It blows a man up like a bladder. [ William Shakespeare ]
A nod of an honest man is enough. [ Proverb ]
A fortunate man may be any where. [ Proverb ]
Earth, sea, man, are all in each. [ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ]
Jack in an office is a great man. [ Proverb ]
Old age is a heavy burden to man.
Beware the fury of a patient man. [ John Dryden ]
What is a work-man without tools? [ Proverb ]
Man corrupts all that he touches. [ Montaigne ]
To man, in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
When tost by tides of human fate,
To anchor fast in heaven. [ Watts ]
No man is wise enough by himself. [ Plautus ]
The choleric man never wants woe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I am a man
More sinned against than sinning. [ King Lear ]
To outshoot a man in his own bow. [ Proverb ]
As a man's life is, so is the end. [ Motto ]
A great man is made so for others. [ Thomas Wilson ]
No man can lose what he never had. [ Izaak Walton ]
I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. [ Gay ]
The poor man's wisdom is despised. [ South ]
Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
You tell your story to a deaf man.
The man in the moon drinks claret. [ Proverb ]
A very proud man is always wilful. [ Proverb ]
As the man is, so is his strength. [ Bible ]
Greater than man, less than woman. [ Essex, of Queen Elizabeth ]
Man's rank is his power to uplift. [ George Macdonald ]
The life of a man is a winter way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An old man is a bed full of bones. [ Proverb ]
For danger levels man and brute
And all are fellows in their need. [ Dryden ]
Music is the poor man's Parnassus. [ Emerson ]
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground. [ Pope ]
No man has perpetual good fortune. [ Plautus ]
A hungry man smells meat afar off. [ Proverb ]
To a wise man, living is thinking. [ Proverb ]
The delusive dreams of a sick man. [ Horace ]
Calamity is man's true touchstone. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
He is a very valiant trencher-man. [ William Shakespeare ]
There must be a man behind a book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A man when angry is beside himself. [ Publius Syrus ]
He wounded a dead man to the heart. [ Proverb ]
Beware of no man more than thyself. [ Proverb ]
A blind man will be glad to see it. [ Proverb ]
Every man is best known to himself. [ Proverb ]
The sandal-tree perfumes when riven
The axe that laid it low:
Let man who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe. [ Sadi ]
On Reason build Resolve!
That column of true majesty in man. [ Young ]
God created woman only to tame man. [ Voltaire ]
The proper study of mankind is man. [ Pope ]
Pension never enriched a young man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The rank is but the guinea's stamp.
The man's the gowd for a' that. [ Burns ]
The silent man still suffers wrong. [ J. P. Collier ]
Age and wedlock tame man and beast. [ Proverb ]
A man assailed is half overpowered. [ French ]
Even the just man has need of help. [ Italian Proverb ]
Even a blind man could perceive it. [ Proverb ]
It is the place that shews the man. [ Proverb ]
An handsome bodied man in the face. [ Proverb ]
A fool may give a wise man counsel. [ Proverb ]
Silence is the eternal duty of man. [ Carlyle ]
Every man has his devilish minutes. [ Lavater ]
Time and tide will stop for no man. [ Proverb ]
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul:
The mind's the standard of the man. [ Watts ]
A young serving-man, an old beggar. [ Proverb ]
All strive to give to the rich man. [ Proverb ]
To have an oar in every man's boat. [ Proverb ]
Here am I a man, here may I be one. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Anger is short-lived in a good man. [ Proverb ]
A wilful man had need be very wise. [ Proverb ]
No one loves the man whom he fears. [ Aristotle ]
No man can always stand his ground. [ Proverb ]
But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man. [ Michael J. Barry ]
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [ Ariosto ]
Not a man of iron, but of live oak. [ Garfield ]
No man can antedate his experience. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Respect a man, he will do the more. [ Proverb ]
Recompense to no man evil for evil. [ St. Paul ]
Man blindly works the will of fate. [ Wieland ]
No man can see over his own height. [ Proverb ]
No man was ever scared into heaven. [ Proverb ]
No man is ever hurt but by himself. [ Diogenes ]
Education should be as broad as man. [ Emerson ]
To form a brave man, educate boldly. [ Richter ]
No man knows himself as an original. [ Washington Allston ]
No man lives so poor as he was born. [ Proverb ]
The act of God does wrong to no man. [ Law Max ]
Ah me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps. [ Butler, Hudibras ]
Law governs man, and reason the law. [ Proverb ]
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man. [ Goethe ]
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron! [ Butler ]
You cannot push a man far up a tree. [ Proverb ]
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot. [ Proverb ]
A man is not so soon healed as hurt. [ Proverb ]
A man well mounted is ever choleric. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
How use doth breed a habit in a man! [ William Shakespeare ]
Man with frailty is allied by birth. [ Bishop Lowth ]
No man is always wise except a fool. [ Proverb ]
Man begins to die before he is born. [ Proverb ]
Nature is the immense shadow of man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wise man may be kind without cost. [ Proverb ]
Spiders that kill a man cure an ape. [ Proverb ]
Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]
To a crafty man a crafty and a half. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet. [ Monckton Milnes ]
A man-of-war is the best ambassador. [ Cromwell ]
I dare do all that may become a man,
Who dares do more is none. [ William Shakespeare ]
Even as the blind man shot the crow. [ Proverb ]
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. [ Young ]
The soft whispers of the God in man. [ Young ]
A poet is a world inclosed in a man. [ Victor Hugo ]
It becomes a young man to be modest. [ Plaut ]
A drowning man will catch at a rush. [ Proverb ]
It is the truth that irritates a man. [ Italian Proverb ]
No distinction is 'tween man and man.
But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him. [ Habbington ]
He looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. [ Longfellow ]
An unpeaceable man hath no neighbour. [ Proverb ]
Man alone is either a god or a devil.
I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
All may do what has by man been done. [ Edward Young ]
A drowning man will catch at a straw. [ Proverb ]
Command your man, and do it yourself. [ Proverb ]
A young man idle is an old man needy. [ Proverb ]
A child is an angel dependent on man. [ Count de Maistre ]
To a mortal man, no evil is immortal. [ Proverb ]
Speak not of a dead man at the table. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man of courage never wants weapons. [ Proverb ]
Man is to man either a god or a wolf. [ Erasmus ]
But we all are men.
In our own natures frail; and capable
Of our flesh, few are angels. [ William Shakespeare ]
Grief alone can teach us what is man. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Fortune gives her hand to a bold man. [ Proverb ]
Every man does his own business best. [ Proverb ]
A man's discontent is his worst evil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something. [ Robert Browning ]
A man without money is no man at all. [ Proverb ]
A successful man loses no reputation. [ Proverb ]
Search not for a good man's pedigree. [ Proverb ]
For never, never wicked man was wise. [ Homer ]
Man's extremity is God's opportunity. [ Proverb ]
An envious man is a squint-eyed fool. [ Proverb ]
Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal. [ Moliere ]
In a narrow circle the mind contracts,
Man grows with his expanded needs. [ Schiller ]
Man lives only to shiver and perspire. [ Sydney Smith ]
No honest man has the leer of a rogue. [ Proverb ]
The wise man is born to rule the fool. [ Proverb ]
To laugh is the characteristic of man. [ Rabelais ]
Man's conscience is the oracle of God! [ Byron ]
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. [ Aaron Hill ]
A poor man's debt makes a great noise. [ Proverb ]
Needles and pins, needles and pins!
When a man marries his trouble begins. [ Proverb ]
To do nothing is in every man's power. [ Johnson ]
A man apt to promise is apt to forget. [ Proverb ]
One can love any man that is generous. [ Leigh Hunt ]
It is impious in a good man to be sad. [ Young ]
An old man never wants a tale to tell. [ Proverb ]
The captive bands may chain the hands,
But love enslaves the man. [ Burns ]
Every man living hath something to do. [ Proverb ]
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [ Syrus ]
No wise man ever wished to be younger. [ Swift ]
Every man is the son of his own works. [ Proverb ]
The brave man may yield to braver man.
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Make not thyself the judge of any man. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Extremes in nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use. [ Pope ]
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man hates him at whom he can laugh. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Let every man do what he was made for. [ Proverb ]
Man implores Death and digs his grave. [ A. L. Thomas ]
No man bathes twice in the same river. [ Heraclitus ]
A brave man may fall but cannot yield.
Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no man delights in a sorrowful man. [ Proverb ]
Silence in woman is like speech in man. [ Ben Jonson ]
The fool wanders, the wise man travels. [ Proverb ]
Virtue is a man's both guard and glory. [ Proverb ]
Hew the block off, and get out the man. [ Pope ]
No man can stand always upon his guard. [ Proverb ]
As the good man saith, so say we:
As the good woman saith, so it must be. [ Proverb ]
Great and good are seldom the same man. [ Proverb ]
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. [ L'Estrange ]
Reproof never does a wise man any harm. [ Proverb ]
A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes. [ Proverb ]
A man of courage is also full of faith. [ Cicero ]
Music can noble hints impart.
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art. [ Addison ]
The soul of this man is in his clothes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Man is not made to question, but adore. [ Young ]
He that gives to a good man sells well. [ Proverb ]
No man can be wise on an empty stomach. [ George Eliot ]
The rich poor man is emphatically poor. [ Proverb ]
No man can like all or be liked of all. [ Proverb ]
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. [ Johnson ]
To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]
A fool is better than an obstinate man. [ Proverb ]
'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven. [ Geo. Chapman ]
By time and counsel do the best we can:
The event is never in the power of man. [ Herrick ]
Courage without fortune destroys a man. [ Proverb ]
No man should be judge in his own case. [ Law Maxim ]
Self-Jove is a mote in every man's eye. [ Proverb ]
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. [ Tupper ]
A man so various, that he seem'd to be,
Not one, but all mankind's epitome. [ John Dryden ]
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [ Juvenal ]
Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]
Man's best candle is his understanding. [ Proverb ]
The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]
O death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest! [ Burns ]
Gratefulness is the poor man's payment. [ Proverb ]
God defend me from the man of one book. [ Proverb ]
The poor man's shilling is but a penny. [ Proverb ]
When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can never too long deliberate. [ Dryden ]
O liberty.
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou. [ Dyer ]
Whosoever is king, you shalt be his man. [ Proverb ]
A man's life's no more than to say, One! [ William Shakespeare ]
Woman lives by sentiment, man by action. [ Balzac ]
He is a wise man who knows what is wise. [ Xenophon ]
Man should be ever better than he seems. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]
A day for God to stoop, and man to soar. [ Tennyson ]
Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance. [ Voltaire ]
The object of the superior man is truth. [ Confucius ]
I am as free as nature first made man.
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. [ Dryden ]
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]
Man shows his character best in trifles. [ Schopenhauer ]
The wise man knows himself to be a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]
The act of the law does wrong to no man. [ Law Max ]
No young man believes he shall ever die. [ John Hazlitt ]
The will of man is by his reason swayed. [ William Shakespeare ]
A merciful man is merciful to his beast. [ Bible ]
Man's work is to labor, and leaven -
As best he may - earth here with heaven. [ Robert Browning ]
The mind is the proper judge of the man. [ Seneca ]
An honest man's the noblest work of God. [ Pope ]
Man is one, and he hath one great heart. [ Bailey ]
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble. [ Proverb ]
The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
No man was ever scolded out of his sins. [ William Cowper ]
Nature hath made nothing so base but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man. [ Aleyn ]
Man laughs and weeps at the same things. [ Montaigne ]
Fame - a flower upon a dead man's heart. [ Motherwell ]
Little is done when every man is master. [ Proverb ]
If a man but knew what would be dear,
He need be a merchant but only one year. [ Proverb ]
Let it content thee that thou art a man. [ Lessing ]
A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. [ Achilles Poincelot ]
True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]
A combination, and a form, indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
A blind man should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]
An idle man in the community is a thief. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king. [ Bickerstaff ]
If your shoe pinch you give it your man. [ Proverb ]
Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]
A man is not good or bad for one action. [ Proverb ]
I extend my right hand to a falling man. [ Motto ]
While a sick man has life, there is hope. [ Proverb ]
A man's best friends are his ten fingers. [ Robert Collyer ]
While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err. [ Goethe ]
Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]
A man may be strong and yet not mow well. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
A poor man's cow dies a rich man's child. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Like a man do all things, not sneakingly. [ George Herbert ]
Everything comes if a man will only wait. [ Beaconsfield or Benjamin Disraeli ]
The chief end of man is not to get money. [ Proverb ]
Every true man's apparel fits your thief. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken.
What can an old man do but die? [ Hood ]
The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]
As good beg of a naked man as of a miser. [ Proverb ]
The history of a man is in his character. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Say first, of God above or man below.
What can we reason but from what we know? [ Pope ]
A man's walking is a succession of falls. [ Proverb ]
The atrocious crime of being a young man. [ William Pitt ]
No man flatters the woman he truly loves. [ Tuckermann ]
I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]
To make a man valiant, abuse him lustily. [ Proverb ]
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man. [ Proverb ]
He commands enough that obeys a wise man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
England expects every man to do his duty. [ Horatio Nelson ]
There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. [ Pope ]
A man's wife is his blessing or his bane. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. [ Cowper ]
Man delights not me, - nor woman neither. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man's errors are what make him amiable. [ Goethe ]
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land?" [ Scott ]
No honest man gets an estate of a sudden. [ Proverb ]
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wish, which ages have not yet subdued
In man, to have no master save his mood. [ Byron ]
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. [ Napoleon ]
The poor man's budget is full of schemes. [ Proverb ]
The slothful man is the beggar's brother. [ Proverb ]
A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. [ Proverb ]
A charitable man is the true lover of God. [ Proverb ]
An-ill man is worst, when he appears good. [ Proverb ]
Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]
Infinite is the help man can yield to man. [ Carlyle ]
You see me here, - a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both! [ William Shakespeare ]
How wretched is the man who never mourned! [ Young ]
Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. [ Pope ]
In an easy matter any man may be eloquent. [ Ovid ]
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. [ J. G. Holland ]
A man may provoke his own dog to bite him. [ Proverb ]
War is the corruption and disgrace of man. [ Thomson ]
What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
A man must become wise at his own expense. [ Montaigne ]
If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Happy the man who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that chequer life! [ Cowper ]
Early to bed, and early to rise,
Will make a man healthy, wealthy and wise. [ Proverb ]
As soon as a man is born he begins to die. [ German Proverb ]
Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]
Even a child may beat a man that is bound. [ Proverb ]
The man that makes a character makes foes. [ Young ]
No naked man is sought after to be rifled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit. [ La Bruyere ]
No man has a monopoly of craft to himself. [ Proverb ]
Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. [ Proverb ]
Every man is to be trusted in his own art. [ Proverb ]
No man ever surfeited on too much honesty. [ Proverb ]
The worse the man, the better the soldier. [ Napoleon I ]
A good man, through obscurest aspirations,
Has still an instinct of the one true way. [ Goethe ]
No man ever yet became great by imitation. [ Johnson ]
Let that please man which has pleased God. [ Seneca ]
Every man for himself, and God for us all. [ Proverb ]
As the good-man saith, so say we,
But as the good-wife saith, so it must be. [ Proverb ]
A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]
All the keys hang not at one man's girdle. [ Proverb ]
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. [ Proverb ]
No man is free who cannot command himself. [ Pythagoras ]
There is no man but may make his paradise. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
To a grateful man give money when he asks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. [ Young ]
Without love, it would be sad to be a man. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]
To put our sickle into another man's corn. [ Proverb ]
The ransom of a man's life are his riches. [ Bible ]
While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]
He's a good man whom fortune makes better. [ Proverb ]
An honest man is respected by all parties. [ Hazlitt ]
As the government is, such will be the man. [ Plato ]
No man can transcend his own individuality. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. [ Proverb ]
A young man married is a man that's marred. [ William Shakespeare ]
Without an helm or pilot her to sway;
Full sad and dreadful is that ship's event,
So is the man that wants intendiment. [ Spenser ]
Man makes a death, which nature never made. [ Young ]
A learned man has always riches in himself. [ Phaedr ]
Scorners are an abomination to a sober man. [ Proverb ]
No man can thrive unless his wife lets him. [ Proverb ]
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. [ William Shakespeare ]
O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And they complain no more. [ Longfellow ]
The greater the man, the greater the crime. [ Proverb ]
Reason raise over instinct as you can.
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. [ Pope ]
Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray,
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. [ Young ]
The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. [ Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb ]
The least and weakest man can do some hurt. [ Proverb ]
Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace. [ Young ]
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. [ Swift ]
A married man turns his staff into a stake. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is something of all men in every man. [ Lichtenberg ]
There is many a man hath more hair than wit [ William Shakespeare ]
Man is liable to err as long as he strives. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. [ Disraeli ]
No man is his craft's master the first day. [ Proverb ]
Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. [ William Shakespeare ]
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. [ Proverb ]
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain. [ Dryden ]
No man's religion ever survives his morals. [ South ]
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words. [ Goethe ]
The dream
Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark east,
Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn. [ Tennyson ]
No man was made for sports and recreations. [ Proverb ]
A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool. [ Proverb ]
No honest man ever repented of his honesty. [ Proverb ]
There is no such flatterer as a man's self. [ Proverb ]
Mortal man must not keep up immortal anger. [ Proverb ]
Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man often pays dear for a small frugality. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No really great man ever thought himself so. [ Hazlitt ]
Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. [ Bunyan ]
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is not good that the man should be alone. [ Bible ]
A man dies as often as he loses his friends. [ Bacon ]
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. [ St. James ]
How can man love but what he yearns to help? [ Browning ]
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is as great to be a woman as to be a man. [ Walt Whitman ]
When a man grows angry his reason rides out. [ Proverb ]
Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]
Man's gullability is not his worst blessing. [ Carlyle ]
Women commend a modest man but like him not. [ Proverb ]
No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. [ Bodenstedt ]
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. [ Pope ]
Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]
If a man once fall, all will tread upon him. [ Proverb ]
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano:
A stage where every man must play a part. [ William Shakespeare ]
To eat and to scratch, a man need but begin. [ Proverb ]
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. [ Proverb ]
Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant
Over servile man extends her blind dominion. [ Thomson ]
An honest man's word is as good as his bond. [ Cervantes ]
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls,
The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. [ Otway ]
A quill hath proved the noblest gift to man. [ Byron ]
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]
He who knows man is everywhere in his place. [ Klinger ]
No man can be a poet
That is not a good cook, to know the palates
And several tastes of the time. [ Ben Jonson ]
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
What wind blew you hither. Pistol?
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. [ William Shakespeare ]
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. [ William Shakespeare ]
Money is the best bait to fish for man with. [ Proverb ]
He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. [ Proverb ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. [ Plaut ]
No man's body is as strong as his appetites. [ Tillotson ]
Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
None but a wise man can employ leisure well. [ Proverb ]
The man who has no enemies has no following. [ Donn Piatt ]
An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck. [ Proverb ]
The soul,
The particle of God sent down to man,
Which doth in turn reveal the world and God. [ Lewis Morris ]
Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool. [ Proverb ]
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]
The sight of a man hath the force of a lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Every man is a fool or a physician at forty. [ Proverb ]
To be active is the primary vocation of man. [ Goethe ]
All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle. [ Proverb ]
Every man a little beyond himself is a fool. [ Proverb ]
A very good woman may make but a paltry man. [ Pope ]
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! [ William Shakespeare ]
There's place and means for every man alive. [ William Shakespeare ]
You measure every man's honesty by your own. [ Proverb ]
The youth fights that the old man may enjoy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The substance of a diligent man is precious. [ Bible ]
The brave man thinks of himself last of all. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The absurd man is the man who never changes. [ Belmontet ]
The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. [ Italian Proverb ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. [ Bible ]
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. [ William Shakespeare ]
The hare starts when a man least expects it. [ Proverb ]
He pins his faith upon another man's sleeve. [ Proverb ]
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]
Every man has in his heart a slumbering hog. [ A. Preault ]
A stoic of the woods, - a man without a tear. [ Campbell ]
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. [ Proverb ]
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly
When consternation turns the good man pale? [ Young ]
Vexations, duly borne,
Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man
Sends for his good. [ William Shakespeare ]
Give me that man That is not passion's slave. [ William Shakespeare ]
Once a year a man may say, On his conscience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Learning makes a man fit company for himself. [ Proverb ]
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]
No man must seek to constrain the impossible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
A solitary man is either a brute or an angel. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is the worst thing in the world. [ Proverb ]
A man without patience is a lamp without oil. [ A. de Musset ]
A moneyless man goes fast through the market. [ Proverb ]
The singing man keeps his shop in his throat. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am cross'd with adversity. [ William Shakespeare ]
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]
Life is probation: mortal man was made
To solve the solemn problem - right or wrong. [ John Quincy Adams ]
Take a man by his word and a cow by her horn. [ Proverb ]
Age and wedlock bring a man to his night-cap. [ Proverb ]
May widows wed as often as they can,
And ever for the better change their man;
And some devouring plague pursue their lives,
Who will not well be governed by their wives. [ Dryden ]
A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [ William Shakespeare ]
When a man sleeps his head is in his stomach. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The man is free who is protected from injury. [ Daniel Webster ]
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
* * * * * *
At length the man perceives it die away.
And fade into the light of common day. [ Wordsworth ]
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
There is nothing to which man is not related. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Truth is the highest thing that man can keep. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]
Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man. [ Carlyle ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them.
Not you, correct him. [ William Shakespeare ]
A heady man and a fool may wear the same cap. [ Proverb ]
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. [ Lamb ]
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. [ Proverb ]
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink
Together. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A man has no more goods than he gets good by. [ Proverb ]
Pride loves no man, and is beloved of no man. [ Proverb ]
He will not give the way even to a blind man. [ Proverb ]
A vicious man's son has a good title to vice. [ Proverb ]
He is the free man whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides. [ William Cowper ]
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]
A man is rated by others as he rates himself. [ French Proverb ]
Who fights
With passions and overcomes, that man is armed
With the best virtue - passive fortitude. [ Webster ]
The world's busy man is the grand impertinent. [ Proverb ]
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. [ James Beattie ]
A young man negligent, an old man necessitous. [ Proverb ]
All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]
Cursed be the verse, how well so ever it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. [ Pope ]
A man of the old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. [ Ter ]
Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Alexander Pope ]
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. [ Sallust ]
Society is the master, and man is the servant. [ G. A. Sala ]
At the sight of a man we too say to ourselves,
Let us be men. [ Amiel ]
The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A man dies as often as he loses his relatives. [ Publius Syrus ]
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. [ German Proverb ]
Every dog has its day, and every man his hour. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead. [ Proverb ]
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image. [ Milton ]
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [ Manuel Conde Lucanor ]
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
Art thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness. [ Margaret in "Faust." ]
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]
All meat is not the same in every man's mouth. [ Proverb ]
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. [ Gay ]
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances. [ Sophocles ]
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. [ Ben Jonson ]
No author is a man of genius to his publisher. [ Heine ]
God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal! [ Unknown ]
Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone. [ Auerbach ]
The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]
A man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. [ Proverb ]
It is brave scrambling at the rich man's dole. [ Proverb ]
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. [ Proverb ]
But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. [ William Shakespeare ]
It matters not what religion an ill man is of. [ Proverb ]
A man without money is a bow without an arrow. [ Proverb ]
An unfortunate man's cart is apt to overthrow. [ Proverb ]
Every man's nose will not make a shooing-horn. [ Proverb ]
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. [ William Shakespeare ]
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. [ Addison ]
In her days, every man shall eat in safety.
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry song of peace to all his neighbours. [ William Shakespeare ]
The man is either mad, or he is making verses. [ Horace ]
You will never get your revenge of a rich man. [ Proverb ]
These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]
Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man. [ Goldsmith ]
Man punishes the action, but God the intention. [ Proverb ]
In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. [ Dutch Proverb ]
He was a man
Versed in the world as pilot in his compass;
The needle pointed ever to that interest
Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails
With vantage to the gale of others' passions. [ Ben Jonson ]
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]
The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. [ John Ruskin ]
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. [ Le Sage ]
The fat man knoweth not what the lean thinketh. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man gets no thanks for what he loses at play. [ Proverb ]
No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. [ George MacDonald ]
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. [ Hesiod ]
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore. [ Byron ]
Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]
A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays. [ Proverb ]
He lies there who never feared the face of man. [ The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave ]
Honest water, which never left man in the mire. [ William Shakespeare ]
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
At fifty, chides his infamous delay.
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]
Once in ten years one man hath need of another. [ Proverb ]
Ye have a world of light,
When love in the loved rejoices;
But the blind man's home is the house of night.
And its beings are empty voices. [ Bulwer ]
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]
To thrust one's foot under another man's table. [ Proverb ]
Two to one in all things against the angry man. [ Proverb ]
No great man was ever other than a genuine man. [ Carlyle ]
Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
God is able to do more than man can understand. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world? [ George Eliot ]
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. [ Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield ]
No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be. [ Old saying ]
Reason and knowledge, the highest might of man! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness. [ Beaconsfield ]
Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]
To appear well-bred, a man must actually be so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. [ Pope ]
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye,
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue. [ Akenside ]
A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]
A discontented man knows not where to sit easy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Not that the heavens the little can make great,
But many a man has lived an age too late. [ R. H. Stoddard ]
That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]
Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. [ Motto ]
Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy. [ German Proverb ]
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. [ Proverb ]
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. [ Swedenborg ]
O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]
A wise man is never less alone than when alone. [ Proverb ]
Woman is a creature between man and the angels. [ Balzac ]
A shrew profitable, may serve a man reasonable. [ Proverb ]
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]
A man may say even his pater-noster out of time. [ Proverb ]
An old man in a house is a good sign in a house. [ Heb. Proverb ]
Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man. [ Proverb ]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]
A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man. [ Proverb ]
No great man is ordained to die a natural death. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]
Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]
You can't order remembrance out of a man's mind. [ Thackeray ]
One mad action is not enough to prove a man mad. [ Proverb ]
A man is a stark fool all the while he is angry. [ Proverb ]
A good man is no more to be feared than a sheep. [ Proverb ]
Is there a crime
Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul
Of man, with more infernal hue, than damn'd
Assassination? [ Cibber ]
In the greatest ill the good man hath hope left. [ Proverb ]
A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. [ Proverb ]
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]
Scald not your lips with another man's porridge. [ Proverb ]
Giving much to the poor increases a man's store. [ Proverb ]
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. [ Lamartine ]
The world was sad! - the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sighed - till woman smiled. [ Campbell ]
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire. [ Ouida ]
For my own pleasure, as the man struck his wife. [ Proverb ]
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man. [ Addison ]
Happy is the man whose father went to the devil. [ Proverb ]
For whatever man has, is in reality only a gift. [ Wieland ]
Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. [ Emerson ]
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. [ Browning ]
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild. [ Crabbe ]
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill turn. [ Bacon ]
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. [ Tertullian ]
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that loves himself too much loves an ill man. [ Proverb ]
Good counsel makes a proud man and a fool angry. [ Proverb ]
Mock no pannier-man if your father was a fisher. [ Proverb ]
Not one false man but does uncountable mischief. [ Carlyle ]
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. [ Carlyle ]
Every man has business and desire, such as it is. [ William Shakespeare ]
Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. [ French Proverb ]
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]
He that is a wise man by day is no fool by night. [ Proverb ]
No man can ever rise above that at which he aims. [ Archibald A. Hodge ]
He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man. [ Young ]
There are fewer students of man than of geometry. [ Pascal ]
Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies. [ Proverb ]
It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. [ St. Paul ]
Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still. [ Young ]
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]
For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself? [ Proverb ]
That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]
Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins even from the birth are misery and man. [ Pope ]
He's a wise man that leads passion by the bridle. [ Proverb ]
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. [ Ruskin ]
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [ Cicero ]
A man who does not love praise is not a full man. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
A man in distress or despair does as much as ten. [ Proverb ]
An old man's staff is the rapper of death's door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Speak what you will, an ill man will turn it ill. [ Proverb ]
Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [ Cicero ]
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. [ Proverb ]
An ill man in office is a mischief to the public. [ Proverb ]
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. [ Montaigne ]
Every scrap of a wise man's time is worth saving. [ Proverb ]
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. [ Bacon ]
A man may be young in years and yet old in hours. [ Proverb ]
Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse. [ Proverb ]
The mind of man is always longing to do something. [ Cicero ]
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. [ Confucius ]
The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. [ Law ]
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. [ Hazlitt ]
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
Every man is a volume if you know bow to read him. [ Channing ]
Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. [ Basta ]
He that gives to a grateful man puts out to usury. [ Proverb ]
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. [ French Proverb ]
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence. [ Martial ]
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. [ Quarles ]
Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth. [ Proverb ]
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
The primary vocation of man is a life of activity. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
God keep us from a man who knows only one subject. [ French Proverb ]
A man under no restraint is a bear without a ring. [ Proverb ]
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. [ Johnson ]
The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
It is late ere an old man comes to know he is old. [ Proverb ]
His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]
It is time to marry when the woman courts the man. [ Proverb ]
What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]
The old man's staff is the rapper at death's door. [ Proverb ]
There is a different fame goes about of every man. [ Proverb ]
Love and pease will make a man speak at both ends. [ Proverb ]
Truth is the strong thing. Let man's life be true. [ Robert Browning ]
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. [ Bovee ]
A bad pilot is like a blind man leading the blind. [ Marcus Clarke ]
Give a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine. [ Proverb ]
I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. [ Ter ]
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. [ Job v. 7 ]
The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]
Immortality is not every man's business or concern. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of falls. [ Carlyle ]
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]
The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A man's task is always light if his heart is light. [ Lew Wallace ]
That man is well bought who costs but a salutation. [ Proverb ]
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]
The man who can govern a woman can govern a nation. [ Balzac ]
What is highest and noblest in man conceals itself. [ Richter ]
The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. [ Winkelmann ]
To find his place and fill it is success for a man. [ Phillips Brooks ]
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]
Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself. [ Proverb ]
Words, however, are things; and the man who accords
To his language the license to outrage his soul
Is controlled by the words he disdains to control. [ Lord Lytton ]
When a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss. [ Proverb ]
A man must go forth to face life with its enmities. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. [ Montaigne ]
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. [ Samuel Johnson ]
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. [ Hawthorne ]
No man is good but as he wishes the good of others. [ Johnson ]
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. [ Pers ]
It is a most sad sight to see an old man in misery. [ Proverb ]
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. [ Proverb ]
A wise man need not blush for changing his purpose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Or thus, great alms-giving lessens no man's living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
Man is a social animal formed to please in society. [ Montesquieu ]
A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A man may say too much even on the best of subjects. [ Proverb ]
Sit in your own place, and no man can make you rise. [ Proverb ]
A good orator must be Cicero and Roscius in one man. [ Proverb ]
He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man. [ Proverb ]
That man lives twice that lives the first life well. [ Herrick ]
Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. [ Proverb ]
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. [ Emerson ]
A man of many letters, (i.e. of extensive learning).
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]
Even, children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. [ Goldsmith ]
Every man to his trade, quoth the boy to the bishop. [ Proverb ]
That which a man causes to be done, he does himself. [ Proverb ]
Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'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. [ Herbert ]
Earnestness is a quality as old as the heart of man. [ G. Gilfillan ]
Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him. [ Proverb ]
He kills a man, that saves not his life when he can. [ Proverb ]
Progress is the law of life - man is not man as yet. [ Browning ]
A thinking man is always striking out something new. [ Proverb ]
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. [ William Shakespeare ]
The soul of a choleric man is ever by the fire-side. [ Proverb ]
The higher a proud man is raised, the giddier he is. [ Proverb ]
Many a man has been undone by a ridiculous nickname. [ J. H. Moore ]
Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture. [ Zahir Ad-din ]
It is a base thing to tread upon a man that is down. [ Proverb ]
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his goings. [ Proverb ]
Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to. [ Feltham ]
Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? [ Horace ]
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
That man sins charitably who damns none but himself. [ Proverb ]
What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. [ Mackenzie ]
Light is light, though the blind man doesn't see it. [ German Proverb ]
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. [ James A. Garfield ]
He who has no character is not a man: he is a thing. [ Chamfort ]
The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]
Want makes strife between the good-man and his wife. [ Proverb ]
A gallant man rather despises death than hates life. [ Proverb ]
To know life, a man must separate himself from life. [ Feuerbach ]
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. [ Burton ]
The great consulting-room of a wise man is a library. [ George Dawson ]
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. [ Samuel Johnson ]
An old man, if he be a trifler, is every one's scorn. [ Proverb ]
Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. [ Socrates ]
To resist violence is implanted in the nature of man. [ Tacitus ]
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep.
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams.
And into glory peep. [ Vaughan ]
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned. [ Proverb ]
A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself. [ Proverb ]
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. [ Mencius ]
No man can buy anything in the market with gentility. [ Lord Burleigh ]
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel. [ Proverb ]
Where a chest lies open a reputed honest man may sin. [ Proverb ]
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. [ Proverb ]
My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]
Man is only miserable so far as be thinks himself so. [ Sannazaro ]
A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force. [ Simon Cameron ]
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. [ Chapin ]
Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. [ Aristotle ]
Never marry a widow, unless her first man was hanged. [ Proverb ]
The truly great man
Is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Words shew the wit of a man, but actions his meaning. [ Proverb ]
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography. [ Channing ]
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]
That which is one man's meat is another man's poison. [ Proverb ]
He is a wise man, who when he's well can hold him so. [ Proverb ]
If you slander a dead man, you stab him in the grave. [ Proverb ]
There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
It becomes a wise man to try negotiation before arms. [ Terence ]
He that protects an ill man may live to repent of it. [ Proverb ]
He's an excellent man that can wear poverty decently. [ Proverb ]
It is very pretty to see a poor man give to the rich. [ Proverb ]
Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]
Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. [ Lowell ]
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. [ Talleyrand ]
Shall not a man have his spring as well as the plants? [ Thoreau ]
Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing unto him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. [ Cicero ]
All the world, will beat the man whom fortune buffets. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always. [ Proverb ]
A poor man has not many marks for Fortune to shoot at. [ Proverb ]
Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature. [ Proverb ]
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. [ Bulwer ]
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man's friends belong no more to him than he to them. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. [ German Proverb ]
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
A modest man at court is the silliest wight breathing. [ Proverb ]
Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. [ Proverb ]
Who hath a wolf for his mate, needs a dog for his man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [ Proverb ]
Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest. [ Pliny ]
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. [ Mohammed ]
The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. [ St. James ]
With an honest and a good man, business is soon ended. [ Proverb ]
A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. [ Addison ]
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. [ Horace ]
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. [ Amiel ]
The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest. [ Savage ]
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he. [ Lavater ]
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. [ F. W. Newman ]
Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door. [ Turkish Proverb ]
He is a little man; let him go and work with the women! [ Longfellow ]
The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [ Cervantes ]
How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed? [ Confucius ]
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. [ Landor ]
Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse. [ Proverb ]
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. [ Johnson ]
Better a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fortune. [ Proverb ]
When the master licks the knife, it is bad for the man. [ Proverb ]
You are a man among the geese, when the gander is away. [ Proverb ]
Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye of man. [ Arab. Proverb ]
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives. [ Sainte-Beuve ]
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. [ La Bruyere ]
A man's tyranny is measured only by his power to abuse. [ Donn Piatt ]
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. [ Bacon ]
A man that breaks his word bids others be false to him. [ Proverb ]
Every man is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
Repartee is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. [ Moliere ]
Learning in an ill man, is good wine in a musty bottle. [ Proverb ]
A man may love his house and yet not ride on the ridge. [ Proverb ]
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. [ Burton ]
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A man is a man though he have but a hose upon his head. [ Proverb ]
A great man and a great river are often ill neighbours. [ Proverb ]
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. [ Syrus ]
The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on.
A gallant man needs no trumpets and drums to rouse him. [ Proverb ]
A man is a man though he have never a cap to his crown. [ Proverb ]
The poor man has his corn destroyed by hail every year. [ Proverb ]
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]
A man loses his time that comes early to a bad bargain. [ Proverb ]
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. [ Dr. Johnson ]
If the devil catch a man idle, he will set him at work. [ Proverb ]
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity of a man. [ Adam Smith ]
Twilight (of dawn) is the lot of man in every relation. [ Feuchtersleben ]
Man has only too much reason to guard himself from man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Man is Creation's master-piece. But who says so? - Man! [ Gavarni ]
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [ Proverb ]
What we call a gentleman is no longer the man of nature. [ Diderot ]
It is better for a young man to blush than to turn pale. [ Cato ]
Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. [ Philemon Comicus ]
You may believe anything that is good of a grateful man. [ Proverb ]
A tedious person is one a man would leap a steeple from. [ Ben Jonson ]
You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story. [ Proverb ]
Night is the benefit of nature, and made for man's rest. [ Livy ]
It is time enough to doff your hat when you see the man. [ Danish Proverb ]
Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God. [ Hermes ]
A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery. [ Victor Hugo ]
Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man. [ Guyard ]
He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him. [ Proverb ]
An idle man is like stagnant water: he corrupts himself. [ Latena ]
Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. [ Mencues ]
The corn hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. [ La Bruyère ]
A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things. [ Proverb ]
God is the brave man's hope and not the coward's excuse. [ Plutarch ]
I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. [ Thackeray ]
A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing. [ E. P. Day ]
Alexander was below a man, when he affected to be a god. [ Proverb ]
A man may be good in the camp and yet bad in the church. [ Proverb ]
Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. [ Lacordaire ]
Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart. [ Lichtenberg ]
He had a prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse. [ Fuller ]
On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible. [ Balzac ]
A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. [ Tac ]
What God wishes and man wishes are two different things. [ French Proverb ]
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. [ Emerson ]
The first years of man must make provision for the last. [ Samuel Johnson ]
When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress,
I hate the man who can be a churl of them. [ Sterne ]
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. [ Alexander Smith ]
When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. [ Proverb ]
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. [ Thoreau ]
Man forms and educates the world, but woman educates man. [ Julie Burow ]
It is not every man who can afford to wear a shabby coat. [ Colton ]
On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life. [ Börne ]
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. [ Tennyson ]
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]
Woman is the nervous part of humanity; man, the muscular. [ Halle ]
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. [ Joseph Cook ]
If a man wishes to become rich he must appear to be rich. [ Goldsmith ]
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of man. [ Addison ]
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer. [ Bible ]
No man can be a good poet without first being a good man. [ Ben Jonson ]
No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]
Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. [ Proverb ]
Man is not depraved by true pleasures, but by false ones. [ De Lacretelle ]
Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. [ Bible ]
A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every man derives his right to life and liberty from God. [ H. Bingham ]
God keep me from the man that hath but one thing to mind. [ Proverb ]
There is no condition but what sits well upon a wise man. [ Proverb ]
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a man rebels. [ De Finod ]
The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The most lamentable spectacle in the world is a dead man. [ Proverb ]
A grand necessity elevates man; a small one degrades him. [ L. J. Nivernais ]
Every man's fortune is shaped for him by his own manners. [ Corn. Nep ]
A good man will requite a gift; an ill man will ask more. [ Proverb ]
Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man. [ Rousseau ]
He's an ill man that takes by force when he can have free. [ Proverb ]
A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation. [ Beaconsfield ]
To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. [ Goethe ]
It is no advantage for a man in a fever to change his bed. [ Proverb ]
Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience. [ Wieland ]
That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice. [ Hitopadesa ]
It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. [ Proverb ]
If a wise man should never miscarry, the fool would burst. [ Proverb ]
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]
A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him. [ Burke ]
Happy is the man whose enemies have been in small matters. [ Proverb ]
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. [ Moses Harvey ]
Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion. [ F. H. Hedge ]
Man cannot live exclusively by intelligence and self-love. [ Alfred Mercier ]
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. [ Hazlitt ]
Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. [ Proverb ]
A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head. [ Proverb ]
Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. [ French Proverb ]
Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. [ John Ruskin ]
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]
He is no wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion. [ Proverb ]
Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks, he is free. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No man knows himself till he hath tasted of both fortunes. [ Proverb ]
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]
Every plan desires to live long; but, no man would be old. [ Swift ]
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. [ Hans Christian Andersen ]
In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
No man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. [ Law Max ]
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. [ Henry Home ]
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! [ Robert Browning ]
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. [ Johnson ]
Censure's the tax a man pays the public for being eminent. [ Proverb ]
I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads. [ William Shakespeare ]
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. [ Bulwer ]
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. [ Voltaire ]
The great indestructible miracle is man's faith in miracle. [ Jean Paul ]
I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. [ Lord Burleigh ]
A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning. [ Proverb ]
No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion. [ Proverb ]
Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. [ Pope ]
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. [ La Roche ]
Be silent before a great man, or speak what may please him. [ Proverb ]
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. [ Plautus ]
A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. [ Chamfort ]
A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it. [ Proverb ]
No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit. [ Macaulay ]
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]
Of all crafts to an honest man downright is the only craft. [ Proverb ]
A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle. [ From the Latin ]
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [ Vauvenargues ]
A man is known to be mortal by two things : sleep and lust. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. [ Theodore Parker ]
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. [ Diderot ]
To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. [ Goldsmith ]
Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility. [ Amiel ]
The entreaty of a great man, is putting of a force upon us. [ Proverb ]
A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is a sad burden for a woman to carry a dead man's child. [ Proverb ]
Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. [ Seneca ]
In man's most dark extremity 0"ft succor dawns from Heaven. [ Scott ]
The poor man turns his cake, and another comes and eats it. [ Proverb ]
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
The first step to virtue, is to love virtue in another man. [ Proverb ]
Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison. [ Proverb ]
The life of man is a short blossoming and a long withering. [ Uhland ]
Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is. [ Amiel ]
Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running. [ Proverb ]
A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years. [ French Proverb ]
Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Man is an imitative being, and the foremost leads the flock. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
As honest a man as any in the cards, when the kings are out. [ Proverb ]
A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. [ Proverb ]
It is with sorrows, as with countries, each man has his own. [ Chateaubriand ]
To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry? [ William Shakespeare ]
A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud. [ Proverb ]
Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
To woo is a pleasure in a young man, but a frenzy in an old. [ Proverb ]
A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness. [ Victor Hugo ]
Death is bitter to a man in prosperity, or in much business. [ Proverb ]
The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]
God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. [ La Bruyere ]
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. [ Pliny the Elder ]
The least wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it. [ Proverb ]
Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it. [ Vauvenargues ]
He promises like a merchant man, and pays like a man-of-war. [ Proverb ]
You may be a wise man, and yet not know how to make a watch. [ Proverb ]
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. [ Carlyle ]
Of all ruins, the ruin of man is the saddest to contemplate. [ T. Gautier ]
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. [ Hamerton ]
The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. [ Charron ]
Woman is an idol that man worships, until he throws it down.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. [ Pope ]
He is not a virtuous man that loves it not even in an enemy. [ Proverb ]
Hate furroweth the brow, and a man may frown till he hateth. [ Tupper ]
In the short life of man, no time can be afforded to be lost. [ Proverb ]
A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. [ Goldsmith ]
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. [ Alexander Smith ]
Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies. [ Rochefoucauld ]
All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman. [ Voltaire ]
There is no man so bad but has a secret respect for the good. [ Proverb ]
Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. [ Swift ]
A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. [ Sam'l Johnson ]
No man should live in the world that has nothing to do in it. [ Proverb ]
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. [ William Shakespeare ]
A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man lays it to heart. [ Confucius ]
A good honest man now-a-days is but a better word for a fool. [ Proverb ]
There's a method in man's wickedness: it grows up by degrees. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him. [ Proverb ]
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. [ Socrates ]
Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. [ Phaedr ]
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. [ Burke ]
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [ Schiller ]
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger. [ George Eliot ]
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. [ Michael Angelo ]
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]
The benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his liberality. [ Proverb ]
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. [ Proverb ]
No man is born without faults, he is best who has the fewest. [ Horace ]
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [ Plautus ]
A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick. [ Sir W. Temple ]
O, let not woman's weapons, waterdrops, stain my man's cheeks! [ William Shakespeare ]
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [ Virgil ]
A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]
Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic his conceptions are. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas. [ Proverb ]
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. [ Syrus ]
Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. [ Zeno ]
I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the liberty of man. [ Napoleon ]
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. [ Jonathan Swift ]
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. [ Cowper ]
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ Wordsworth ]
Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage. [ Spectator ]
Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts. [ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]
Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. [ John Ruskin ]
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous. [ Confucius ]
A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man. [ S. Butler ]
The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be guilty. [ Law Max ]
To amuse the public: what a sad vocation for a man who thinks!
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel. [ George Chapman ]
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]
No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world. [ Mme. Necker ]
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. [ Fielding ]
It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick. [ Proverb ]
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him. [ Proverb ]
Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's. [ Jean Paul ]
Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man. [ Solomon ]
An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a pound of other peoples'. [ Sterne ]
No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. [ Richter ]
Every man carries in his soul: a sepulchre - that of his youth. [ O. Firmez ]
Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter. [ Proverb ]
A great blockhead hath not stuff enough to make a man of sense. [ Proverb ]
The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
It is a most base thing to betray a man because he trusted you. [ Proverb ]
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. [ Swift ]
Laughter is the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. [ Carlyle ]
It is a sign of a good man if he grows better for commendation. [ Proverb ]
An indiscreet man is an unsealed letter: every one can read it. [ Chamfort ]
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. [ J. G. Holland ]
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. [ Ward Beecher ]
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. [ Proverb ]
In life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on a man above her. [ A. Karr ]
No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light. [ Zoroaster ]
To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. [ Hooker ]
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than a man's. [ Coleridge ]
No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger. [ La Roche ]
Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need. [ Byron ]
He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time. [ Rabelais ]
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Finesse has been given to woman to compensate the force of man. [ Laclos ]
Therefore a man is a cuckold, because two are too hard for one. [ Proverb ]
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him. [ Theodore Parker ]
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. [ Massinger ]
Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. [ Mol ]
The day that a man knows he commits a sin, he condemns himself. [ Proverb ]
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home? [ Proverb ]
He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark. [ Proverb ]
The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him. [ Proverb ]
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. [ Newton ]
A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
He that would right understand a man must read his whole story. [ Proverb ]
Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Every man seeks for truth; but God only knows who has found it. [ Chesterfield ]
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. [ Boileau ]
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. [ Edwin Forrest ]
Man has been created free, is free, even were he born in chains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's. [ Proverb ]
If hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a hero [ Carlyle ]
Happy, indeed, the man who can say that he owes no man anything. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Every man holds in his hand a stone to throw at us in adversity. [ Mme. Bachi ]
You will not believe a man is dead, till you see his brains out. [ Proverb ]
A wise man's thoughts walk within him, but a fool's without him. [ Proverb ]
It is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. [ Robert Browning ]
It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.
A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying. [ A. Dumas pere ]
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. [ Tacitus ]
He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Many a man of fame hath been beholden to fortune for his laurel. [ Proverb ]
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Even ill luck itself is good for something in a wise man's hand. [ Proverb ]
An old wise man's shadow is better than a young buzzard's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. [ Varro ]
Superstition renders a man a fool, and skepticism makes him mad. [ Proverb ]
I will never pretend esteem for a man whose principles I detest. [ Gustavus III. of Sweden ]
A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]
Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. [ Johnson ]
An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. [ James Ellis ]
Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
One man may as much miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. [ Proverb ]
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. [ Aristotle ]
A man is helpless and unsafe up to the measure of his ignorance. [ M. F. Tupper ]
Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. [ French Proverb ]
Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [ Phaedrus ]
To know man, borrow the ear of the blind and the eye of the deaf. [ Lavater ]
The more honest a man is, the less he affects the air of a saint. [ Lavater ]
Joy has this in common with pain, that it bereaves man of reason. [ Platen ]
A fool may speer (ask) more questions than a wise man can answer. [ Scotch Proverb ]
There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
A good man has more hope in his death, than a wicked in his life. [ Proverb ]
A slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier one, your enemy. [ Laber ]
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. [ Horace ]
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. [ Emerson ]
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. [ J. Stuart Mill ]
Discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man. [ Bacon ]
It is the riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy. [ Proverb ]
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. [ Haliburton ]
What there are pride and covetousness in a man, two devils fight. [ Proverb ]
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
By the verdict of his own breast no guilty man is ever acquitted. [ Juvenal ]
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. [ Emerson ]
If you hate a man eat his bread; and if you love him do the same. [ Proverb ]
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]
Pride becomes not a rich man, but is insupportable in a poor man. [ Proverb ]
Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
That which each man can do best, not but his Maker can teach him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What man seeks in love is woman; what woman seeks in man is love. [ A. Houssaye ]
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. [ Macaulay ]
A man - be the heavens ever praised! - is sufficient for himself. [ Carlyle ]
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master. [ Dryden ]
Night is the cloak to cover sin, and the armor of the unjust man. [ Theophrastus ]
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. [ Landor ]
Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man. [ J. H. Evans ]
And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? [ Friedrich Schiller ]
A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. [ William Ellery Channing ]
One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. [ Proverb ]
Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his existence harmonious. [ Carlyle ]
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. [ Italian Proverb ]
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow. [ Schiller ]
Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in everything. [ Laurence Sterne ]
I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. [ Spanish Proverb ]
You are an honest man, and I am your uncle, and that’s two lies. [ Proverb ]
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. [ Bible ]
That sick man is not to be pitied who hath his cure in his sleeve. [ Proverb ]
That same man that rennith awaie, Male again fight, an other dale. [ Erasmus ]
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof. [ Channing ]
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. [ Chesterfield ]
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. [ Hume ]
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]
At every stage of life he reaches, man finds himself but a novice. [ Chamfort ]
All the wit in the world is thrown away upon the man who has none. [ Bruyère ]
Ill-fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. [ Ben Jonson ]
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. [ Moliere ]
What, therefore, God hath joined together let not man put asunder. [ Bible ]
For the same man to be a heretic and a good subject is impossible. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man. [ Bible ]
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure. [ Dr. Johnson ]
When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. [ Jean Paul ]
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. [ Proverb ]
Seraphs share with thee knowledge; but art, O man, is thine alone! [ Schiller ]
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]
Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. [ Steele ]
A short man needs no stool to give a long lubber a box on the ear. [ Proverb ]
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. [ John Sterling ]
He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man. [ Shakespeare ]
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]
Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will gather the shafts. [ Proverb ]
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]
A young woman married to an old man, must behave like an old woman. [ Proverb ]
A great man will not trample upon, a worm, nor sneak to an emperor. [ Proverb ]
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? [ Persius ]
A man with a running head never wants wherewith to trouble himself. [ Proverb ]
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. [ Goethe ]
A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. [ Scotch Proverb ]
It is in contemplating man at a distance that we become benevolent. [ Buiwer-Lytton ]
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. [ Dryden ]
The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
To be despised is more galling to a foolish man than to be whipped.
Sampson was a strong man, yet could not pay money before he had it. [ Proverb ]
A man always ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Half light, half shade, she stood a sight to make an old man young. [ Tennyson ]
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]
A man may be happy here and hereafter, without much fame or wealth. [ Proverb ]
Be a man!
Bear thine own burden; never think to thrust thy fate upon another. [ Robert Browning ]
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]
When a man hath once done blushing, he commences a hardened sinner. [ Proverb ]
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. [ W. R. Alger ]
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. [ Proverb ]
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. [ Wendell Phillips ]
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber. [ Juvenal ]
The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. [ Ejik ]
When the good man is abroad, the good woman's table is soon spread. [ Proverb ]
Knowledge is like money, - the more a man gets, the more he craves. [ H.W. Shaw ]
An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. [ Ben Jonson ]
It is not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise, man. [ Proverb ]
A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
For one rich man that is content, there are an hundred that are not. [ Proverb ]
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. [ Seneca ]
In a word, to be a fine gentleman is to be a generous and brave man. [ Steele ]
Surely man is a being wonderfully vain, changeable, and vacillating. [ Montaigne ]
No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless. [ Carlyle ]
When I wanted an honest man, I never thought to go to court for him. [ Proverb ]
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. [ Blaise Pascal ]
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. [ Lord Clarendon ]
No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Most things have two handles, and a wise man takes hold of the best. [ Proverb ]
God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. [ Bible ]
A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow. [ Confucius ]
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]
An happy man shall have more cousins, than his father had kinsfolks. [ Proverb ]
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. [ Jean Paul ]
It is time, conversation and business, that discovers what a man is. [ Proverb ]
That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies. [ Young ]
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? [ S. T. Coleridge ]
He that deals with a senseless man had need of a good deal of sense. [ Proverb ]
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. [ Emerson ]
Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God. [ Parnell ]
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. [ Bishop Hall ]
The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. [ Guizot ]
A man gains nothing by being vain-glorious, but contempt and hatred. [ Proverb ]
If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. [ S. de Bouflers ]
Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man. [ Cowper ]
Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. [ Amiel ]
Coquetry is a net laid by the vanity of woman to ensnare that of man. [ Bruis ]
God makes, and apparel shapes, but it is money that finishes the man. [ Proverb ]
Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay. [ Shakespeare ]
Death and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]
Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. [ Schiller ]
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. [ Ter ]
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. [ Bible ]
He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise. [ Voltaire ]
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
'Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man. [ Bayard Taylor ]
The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of woman. [ A. Comte ]
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. [ Spurgeon ]
It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early. [ Cervantes ]
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion. [ Addison ]
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude, in all the ages. [ William Matthews ]
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. [ William M. Thackeray ]
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. [ Bacon ]
The good man of the house is the last that knows what is done at home. [ Proverb ]
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. [ Lowell ]
The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. [ Laboulaye ]
It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a man shows what he is. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Let the white man's country be my country, and his kindred my kindred. [ Pocahontas ]
The greatest art of an able man is to know how to conceal his ability. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. [ Franklin ]
The weak man who whines of neglect gives the sign of his own weakness. [ Ada Isaacs Menken ]
I never hear of a great man, that I do not inquire who was his mother. [ J. Adams ]
Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality. [ Edward Parsons Day ]
He that kills a man when he is drunk, must be hanged when he is sober. [ Proverb ]
Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. [ Bible ]
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph. [ Robert Emmet ]
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast taken with equal thanks. [ William Shakespeare ]
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing. [ Feltham ]
The crickets sing, and man's overlabored sense repairs itself by rest. [ William Shakespeare ]
The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both. [ Jean Paul ]
The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception. [ Adam Ferguson ]
There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. [ Owen Meredith ]
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. [ William Penn ]
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. [ Beaconsfield ]
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. [ Horne ]
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. [ Longfellow ]
No man ever thought too highly of his nature or too meanly of himself. [ Young ]
When a man is set upon his own ruin, it is in vain to reason with him. [ Proverb ]
A man of parts may lie hid all his life, unless fortune calls him out. [ Proverb ]
No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics. [ Lamb ]
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]
A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]
Patience, the second bravery of man, is perhaps greater than the first. [ Antonio de Solis ]
No man should be afraid to die, who hath understood what it is to live. [ Proverb ]
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. [ Proverb ]
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. [ Carlyle ]
Man had perished long ago, had it not been for public spirited persons. [ Proverb ]
The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. [ Carlyle ]
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. [ Bible ]
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. [ Kant ]
The passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet. [ Dryden ]
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. [ Thoreau ]
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. [ Hafiz ]
Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse? [ Plato ]
A man's little the better for liking himself, if nobody else likes him. [ Proverb ]
Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault. [ Proverb ]
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to suffice for a man. [ Dr. George Fordyce ]
If man knew well what life is, he would not give it so inconsiderately. [ Mme. Roland ]
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. [ Mme. Necker ]
Conversation is an art in which v. man has all mankind for competitors. [ Emerson ]
If a poor man give you something, you should give him something better. [ Proverb ]
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. [ Milton ]
The world is all perfect except where man comes with his burden of woe. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. [ Aristotle ]
Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]
He is a very ill man who retains not a secret reverence for a good man. [ Proverb ]
Within yourselves deliverance must be sought: Each man his prison makes. [ Edwin Arnold ]
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. [ Racine ]
Better have an old man to humour, than a young rake to break your heart. [ Proverb ]
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. [ Elizabeth Oakes Smith ]
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. [ Horace Mann ]
A man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in. [ Pollok ]
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. [ St. James ]
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! Yes, the whole man, as the crucible gold! [ Lamartine ]
Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself. [ Spurgeon ]
No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. [ Addison ]
That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work. [ Donn Piatt ]
A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty and a child at eighty. [ Proverb ]
Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man. [ Bancroft ]
Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own. [ Montaigne ]
Covetousness, as well as prodigality, brings a man to a morsel of bread. [ Proverb ]
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There is one art of which man should be master, - the art of reflection. [ Coleridge ]
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]
A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart. [ Quarles ]
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. [ Lamartine ]
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. [ Carlyle ]
The heart is the lord of the body, as a man is the lord of his own house. [ Kiu-o ]
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]
Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends. [ Proverb ]
The true gentlemen is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man. [ Proverb ]
O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee! [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. [ Danish Proverb ]
Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]
No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. [ Carlyle ]
A man's passions, tastes, and opinions are discovered by his admirations. [ C. Nodier ]
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
I envy no man that knows more than my self, but pity them that know less. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
If you had had fewer friends and more enemies, you had been a better man. [ Proverb ]
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
To blame a young man for being in love is like chiding one for being ill. [ Duclos ]
The avaricious man is kind to no person, but he is most unkind to himself. [ Latin Proverb ]
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. [ Alcott ]
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in women, by the heart. [ Stendhal ]
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [ Carlyle ]
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. [ La Roche ]
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [ Horace ]
Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
To be proud of an hereditary title, is to rant it in a dead man's clothes. [ Proverb ]
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [ Lucan ]
No man, be he who he may, but experiences a last happiness and a last day. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. [ Emmons ]
Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. [ Saadi ]
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. [ Claude Levi-Strauss ]
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. [ Schiller ]
The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. [ Chaucer ]
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured by inches in a man's face. [ Benjamin West ]
The man who becomes a critic by trade, ceases in reality to be one at all. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.
No man is willing to own him, who is out of the good opinion of the world. [ Proverb ]
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it. [ Proverb ]
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. [ Johnson ]
Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.
To be silent is the safest course for the man who distrusts his own powers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. [ Ben Jonson ]
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. [ Bruyere ]
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. [ Bible ]
To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. [ Plautus ]
Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. [ Plato ]
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [ Cicero ]
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. [ Halleck ]
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Still it is a fine sight to see a man who has never changed his principles. [ Jules Favre ]
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. [ Cicero ]
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace. [ Thomson ]
Would you know the qualities a man lacks, examine those of which he boasts. [ Segur ]
When a man's coat is thread-bare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. [ Proverb ]
When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. [ Goldsmith ]
The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. [ Confucius ]
When a blind man flourishes the ancient, woe be unto those that follow him. [ Proverb ]
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. [ Cicero ]
Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is. [ Amiel ]
Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. [ Cicero ]
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]
He that is cheated twice by the same man, is an accomplice with the cheater. [ Proverb ]
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. [ Fielding ]
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. [ Voltaire ]
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. [ Colton ]
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be said to be its own reward. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. [ La Bruyère ]
He that knows useful things, not he that knows many things, is the wise man. [ Proverb ]
You read of but one wise man; and all that he knew was that he knew nothing. [ Congreve ]
He that ties up another man's dog, shall have nothing left him but the line. [ Proverb ]
It is a part of good-breeding, that a man should be polite, even to himself. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
It is a miserable thing for a wise man to be under the government of a fool. [ Proverb ]
Evil is so common in the world that it is easy to believe it natural to man. [ F. Soulie ]
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]
What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past? [ Pope ]
As a man is, so is his God: therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [ Goethe ]
Put another man's child into your bosom and he'll creep out at your sleeves. [ Proverb ]
Rash combat oft immortalizes man. If he should fall, he is renowned in song. [ Goethe ]
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. [ Rev. Thomas Scott ]
A mathematician is a practical man, estimating things by their real utility. [ W. H. Prescott ]
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]
To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. [ William Shakespeare ]
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle. [ J. G. Holland ]
A man who is pleased with no one is more unhappy than he who pleases no one. [ De Saint-Real ]
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. [ William Shakespeare ]
If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
It is the unseen and spiritual in man that determines the outward and actual. [ Carlyle ]
A bitter and perplexed What shall I do?
is worse to man than worse necessity. [ Coleridge ]
No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]
He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. [ Lowell ]
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. [ Seneca ]
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. [ Noah Porter ]
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count never made a man. [ Southern ]
No friend like to a bosom friend, as the man said when he pulled out a louse. [ Proverb ]
There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison. [ Thackeray ]
To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school. [ Fletcher ]
It is a true proverb that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt. [ Plutarch ]
Man, like everything else that lives, changes with the air that sustains him. [ Taine ]
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]
When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. [ George P. Upton ]
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if be has but prudence. [ Goldsmith ]
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Man thinks, and, at once, becomes the master of the beings that do not think. [ Buffon ]
Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. [ Confucius ]
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. [ W. R. Alger ]
If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it. [ Henry Giles ]
He may rate himself a happy man who lives remote from the gods of this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is. [ Plutarch ]
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. [ Richardson ]
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
No man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the last ray of light in his soul. [ Körner ]
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. [ Cicero ]
When a man says he has exhausted life one always knows life has exhausted him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. [ Southey ]
Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man. [ Laboulaye ]
Physical beauty in man has become as rare as his moral beauty has always been. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. [ Emerson ]
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. [ Goethe ]
He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously who is overcome without danger. [ Seneca ]
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, but the worst animal is man. [ Proverb ]
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. [ Byron ]
Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed. [ Malherbe ]
Every man must have his own style, as he has his own face and his own features. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself. [ Carlyle ]
The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Body and soul like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loath to part. [ Young ]
Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]
Let a broken man cling to his work. If it saves nothing else, it will save him. [ Beecher ]
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [ Goethe ]
Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. [ Carlyle ]
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. [ Talleyrand ]
It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own. [ Proverb ]
One may live as a conquerer, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. [ Daniel Webster ]
God said. Let us make man in our image.
Man said, Let us make God in our image.
[ Douglas Jerrold ]
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine: do not become intoxicated. [ A. de Musset ]
Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]
There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts. [ Bacon ]
The man who enters his wife's dressing-room is either a philosopher, or a fool. [ Balzac ]
The wise man knows well that he does not know; the ignorant man thinks he knows. [ Spanish Proverb ]
God, who repented of having created man, never repented of having created woman. [ Malherbe ]
Not for herself was woman first created, nor yet to be man's idol, but his mate. [ Mrs. Norton ]
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. [ Emerson ]
I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear. [ Richardson ]
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than a fool from his friends. [ Proverb ]
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual meaning, is a man of pure race. [ John Ruskin ]
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. [ Addison ]
When the devil of contradiction once possesses a man, he is hard to be cast out. [ Proverb ]
The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. [ De Tocqueville ]
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. [ Michelet ]
Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. [ Anon ]
A conscience void of offence before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]
A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's. [ Saville ]
It is heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. [ Addison ]
To discuss an opinion with a fool is like carrying a lantern before a blind man. [ De Gaston ]
Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. [ Fontenelle ]
Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man. [ Cötvös ]
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. [ Herbert Spencer ]
No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed. [ Carlyle ]
A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]
Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]
A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. [ Swift ]
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel; savages are always cruel. [ Dr. Johnson ]
We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]
The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully take. [ Elyot ]
A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man. [ Proverb ]
No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own. [ F. W. Robertson ]
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. [ Proverb ]
A mother's tenderness and a father's care are nature's gifts for man's advantage. [ L. Murray ]
In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on. [ Pythagoras ]
No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]
There is no conferring a favour (involving obligation) on a man against his will. [ Law Max ]
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. [ Johnson ]
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. [ Cowper ]
Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, - what would man be? [ Mme. de Girardin ]
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more the heart of man. [ Plutarch ]
Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good. [ J. C. Lavater ]
When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. [ Talmud ]
There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. [ Jesus ]
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. [ Lowell ]
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep. [ Beaumont ]
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. [ Shenstone ]
The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies. [ Macaulay ]
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Man's caution often into danger turns, and his guard falling crushes him to death. [ Young ]
A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love. [ La Bruyere ]
No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Money and man a mutual falsehood show. Men make false money, - money makes men so. [ Aleyn ]
O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? [ Chapin ]
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! [ Carlyle ]
What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing? Answer: A great man's promise. [ Proverb ]
If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone." [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. [ Voltaire ]
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. [ Carlyle ]
When a man finds not repose in himself it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. [ From the French ]
If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]
It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we must measure a great man. [ George Henry Lewes ]
No woman or man need ever suffer from ennui or despair; the panacea is occupation. [ Mme. de Surin ]
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life. [ Michelet ]
Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. [ Menander ]
Good fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in order to develop his capability. [ French ]
Circumstances are beyond the control of a man, but his conduct is in his own power. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
A lie is the abandonment, and, as it were, the annihilation, of the dignity of man. [ Immanuel Kant ]
When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. [ Spurgeon ]
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. [ Danish Webster ]
For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. [ Proverb ]
It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. [ Dacier ]
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. [ Euripides ]
Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount. [ Richter ]
There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
When a man and woman are married, their romance ceases and their history commences. [ Rochebrune ]
Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
There is no man easier to deceive than he who hopes; for he aids in his own deceit. [ Bossuet ]
Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. [ Lavater ]
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. [ Johnson, of Goldsmith ]
To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. [ Carlyle ]
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. [ Agnesi ]
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. [ Colton ]
A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. [ Carlyle ]
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. [ Nelson ]
A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity. [ Lavater ]
No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light. [ Th. Körner ]
I believe that a man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. [ Thomas Paine ]
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. [ Addison ]
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. [ Homer ]
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them. [ Goldsmith ]
In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man is glory; the life of woman is love. [ Balzac ]
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does, - skip. [ Rogers ]
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it, and sets it light. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation. [ Rochepedre ]
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. [ William Penn ]
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. [ Emerson ]
All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. [ Carlyle ]
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. [ Carlyle ]
A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. [ La Roche ]
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. [ Johnson ]
If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. [ Bacon ]
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool, when he speaks. [ Proverb ]
A man can never be a true gentleman in manner, until he is a true gentleman at heart. [ Charles Dickens ]
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. [ La Fontaine ]
Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. [ Young ]
A wicked man is his own hell; and his passions and lusts the fiends that torment him. [ Proverb ]
I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better. [ Wycherley ]
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God. [ John B. Gough ]
Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall throne thee with archangels. [ Tupper ]
When an old man will not drink, you may safely promise him a visit in the next world. [ Proverb ]
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
A pious man said: If I ignored the existence of God, I would adore the sun and women.
Only a woman will believe in a man who has once been detected in fraud and falsehood. [ Dumas, Pere ]
I have generally found that the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else. [ Franklin ]
Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. [ Rückert ]
Man must either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself. [ Antisthenes ]
The laws of love unite man and woman so strongly that no human laws can separate them. [ Balzac ]
That man that has a tongue, I say, is no man if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. [ William Shakespeare ]
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosoms of fools. [ Proverb ]
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. [ Carlyle ]
Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. [ Spurgeon ]
Hope is so sweet with its golden wings, that, at his last sigh, man still implores it. [ De la Pena ]
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
The most finished man of the world is he who is never irresolute and never in a hurry. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man of the town and the world, is the playhouse. [ Steele ]
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. [ Lowell ]
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
It is of no consequence of what parents any man is born, so that he be a man of merit. [ Horace ]
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. [ Pythagoras ]
Put a poor man's penny and a rich man's penny into a purse, and they'll come out alike. [ Proverb ]
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. [ J. G. Holland ]
The man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue be cannot win a woman. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. [ Addison ]
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. [ L'Estrange ]
Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and drinking. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, - in all things ruled, mind, body, and estate. [ Crabbe ]
The wealthiest man is he who is most economical; the poorest is he who is most miserly. [ Chamfort ]
The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are the portions of eternity. [ Lowell ]
A poor man who aspires to ape the manners and habits of the rich, is sure to be ruined. [ Phaedrus ]
From the power which constrains every creature man frees himself by overcoming himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. [ Johnson ]
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]
Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist. [ Stendhal ]
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. [ Milton ]
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
Thy wife is a constitution of virtues: she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. [ Congreve ]
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. [ Cicero ]
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit; but God to man doth speak in solitude. [ John Stuart Blackie ]
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. [ Carlyle ]
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, There goes the man.
[ Persius ]
Every man stamps his value on himself; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness. [ Matthew Henry ]
He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, (i.e. has become young again). [ Proverb ]
Laziness is a good deal like money: the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought and of elevated opinions. [ George Dawson ]
Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. [ A. Dumas pere ]
But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. [ J. B. Rousseau ]
The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. [ L'Estrange ]
Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down
. [ Le Brun ]
Happy is the man who reverences all women because he first learned to worship his mother. [ Richter ]
Show a good man his error, and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. [ South ]
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger, and not thine own lips. [ Bible ]
A man may as well expect to be well, and at ease without wealth, as happy without virtue. [ Proverb ]
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. [ Johnson ]
There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes. [ Persian Proverb ]
Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do. [ Goethe ]
To a well-deserving man God will show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be simply just. [ Plaut ]
Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. [ Greville ]
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. [ Henry Ward Beechen ]
A bluestocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man. [ Rousseau ]
Be very sure that no man will learn any thing at all unless he first will learn humility. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. [ Lamartine ]
The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. [ Gibbon ]
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. [ Henri Beyle ]
In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior. [ Proverb ]
Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. [ Horace ]
To love IS a rare happiness; if it were common, it would be better to be a man than a god. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]
I have cured her from lying in the hedge, quoth the good man when he married his daughter. [ Proverb ]
It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret, and I know more than one man who is a woman. [ La Fontaine ]
Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. [ William Penn ]
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another. [ Cicero ]
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles? [ Saadi ]
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. [ Voltaire ]
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. [ Lowell ]
Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A great man knows the value of greatness: he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. [ Landor ]
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for iiis opportunity when it comes. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him, if you would know whether he is rich or poor. [ Ward Beecher ]
From Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal, in my estimation, is man. [ Boileau ]
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. [ Beaconsfield ]
The man who prates about the cruelty of angling will be found invariably to beat his wife. [ Christopher North ]
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [ Ovid ]
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
A man of a great memory, without learning, hath a rock and a spindle, and no staff to spin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nature has lent us tears - the cry of suffering when the man at last can bear it no longer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's. [ Quarles ]
Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. [ Gay ]
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [ Ovid ]
A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the caprices of the world. [ X. Doudan ]
I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. [ Gray ]
Shake a Liecestershire man by the collar, and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly. [ Proverb ]
No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. [ Cicero ]
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. [ Bruyere ]
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man than the discovery of a star. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
The Creator, in obliging man to eat, invites him by appetite, and rewards him with pleasure. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the peace of God is there. [ Whittier ]
Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter.
O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. [ Saadi ]
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. [ Montaigne ]
A man's virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct. [ Pascal ]
The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. [ Charles Hodge ]
Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. [ Carlyle ]
If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. [ From the Latin ]
Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means - angel!
Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life. [ Mme. de Staël ]
A wise man likes that best, that is itself; Not that which only seems, though it look fairer. [ Middleton ]
Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]
A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]
We need the friendship of a man in great trials; of a woman in the affairs of every-day life. [ A. L. Thomas ]
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. [ La Fontaine ]
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. [ Bacon ]
The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]
It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important. [ Lessing ]
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. [ Burke ]
A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. [ Feltham ]
Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour to his cheek. [ John Ruskin ]
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]
Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life. [ Thomas Hughes ]
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]
He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. [ Channing ]
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. [ Cicero ]
Often the world discovers a man's moral worth only when its injustice has nearly destroyed him. [ De Finod ]
You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. [ To a doctor ]
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. [ Joubert ]
Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay. [ Johnson ]
Whatever the number of a man's friends there will be times in his life when he has one too few. [ Bulwer ]
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. [ Bible ]
The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. [ Carlyle ]
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. [ Colton ]
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. [ Beecher ]
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. [ Joseph Roux ]
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. [ Huxley ]
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. [ J. Roux ]
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. [ Thackeray ]
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. [ John Ruskin ]
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]
Negligence and inattention to minute actions will, ultimately, be prejudicial to a man's virtue. [ J. Hamilton ]
Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man. [ Lord Burleigh ]
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. [ Scott ]
When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. [ Carlyle ]
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. [ Richter ]
The devil never assails a man except he finds him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A soul, - a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. [ L'Estrange ]
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye placed in the back of his head. [ Coleridge ]
Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. [ John Ruskin ]
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream - past the wit of man to say what dream it was. [ William Shakespeare ]
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his. [ G. D. Prentice ]
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. [ Macaulay ]
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. [ Rousseau ]
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. [ Joubert ]
The hand of diligence defeateth want; prosperity and success are the industrious man's attendants. [ R. Dodsley ]
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. [ Emerson ]
The man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of his years. [ Isaac Taylor ]
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted. [ Beecher ]
I have been young, and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end. [ Berthold Auerbach ]
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. [ George Eliot ]
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. [ Charles Buxton ]
The rudest man, inspired by passion, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. [ One of the laws of the Twelve Tables ]
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. [ Edward Everett Hale ]
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim. [ Goldsmith ]
Nature has planted passions in the heart of man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life. [ Fox ]
No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. [ Carlyle ]
To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart. [ Beauchene ]
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? [ Sir P. Sidney ]
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]
A man selects his enemies, his friends make themselves, and from these friends he is apt to suffer. [ Donn Piatt ]
By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]
You will as often find a great man above, as below, his reputation, when once you come to know him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. [ Addison ]
The tastes, affections, and sentiments are more absolutely the man than his talent or acquirements. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. [ Alexander Smith ]
A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society to avoid the tête-à-tête. [ De Varennes ]
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. [ Emerson ]
When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]
I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts. [ Rowland Hill ]
Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. [ John Ruskin ]
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man. [ Buffon ]
When a man seems to be wise, it is merely that his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness. [ B. R. Haydon ]
That man is great who rises to the emergencies of the occasion, and becomes master of the situation. [ Donn Piatt ]
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor. [ Sir W. Temple ]
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. [ Bovee ]
The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children. [ Henry Drummond ]
Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. [ Carlyle ]
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [ Talleyrand ]
To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]
Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]
Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. [ Steele ]
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it. [ Chateaubriand ]
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has but one talent for a genius. [ Arthur Helps ]
Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. [ Carlyle ]
A small inkling of philosophy leads man to despise learning; much philosophy leads man to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]
A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. [ Seneca ]
It is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was. [ Howell ]
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? [ Pascal ]
I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. [ Ovid ]
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. [ Lowell ]
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. [ Lady Blessington ]
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]
There are very few things in the world upon which an honest man can repose his soul, or his thoughts. [ Chamfort ]
Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality in this poor world of ours. [ Schiller ]
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. [ Cicero ]
The moment past is no longer: the future may never be: the present is all of which man is the master. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. [ Lord Bacon ]
A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]
I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! [ Lamartine ]
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. [ Seneca ]
The balls of sight are so formed that one man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. [ Johnson ]
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man, and men are the particles of which it is composed. [ J. G. Holland ]
The covetous man explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. [ Saadi ]
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. [ Mencius ]
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Though the generous man care the least for wealth; yet he will be the most galled with the want of it. [ Proverb ]
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. [ Napoleon I ]
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken. [ Plutarch ]
Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. [ Emmons ]
This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords. [ Samuel Johnson ]
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. [ Hazlitt ]
Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. [ Sterne ]
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. [ Sam'l Johnson ]
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. [ Lavater ]
Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. [ Buddha ]
Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. [ Skobeleff ]
To the warning word no man has respect, only to the flattering and promising is his attention directed. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Time destroys the groundless conceits of man, but confirms that which is founded on nature and reality. [ Cicero ]
The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. [ Ik Marvel ]
Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress. [ J. A. Langford ]
The soul of man is larger than the sky. Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. [ Emerson ]
All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man. [ Plato ]
Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature's casket, for the ornamentation and happiness of man. [ Guyard ]
No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him. [ John Ruskin ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. [ Ruskin ]
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. [ Carlyle ]
When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. [ Collier ]
Let us love! let us enjoy the fugitive hour! Man has no harbor, time has no shores: it runs, and we pass! [ Lamartine ]
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. [ Feltham ]
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. [ Luther ]
One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation. [ Campbell ]
We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
A man behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. [ Epictetus ]
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath saith, This is my own, my native land!
[ Sir Walter Scott ]
To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice. [ Aristotle ]
We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead
, but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born.
[ Beecher ]
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Costly followers are not to be liked, lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. [ Bacon ]
No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women - not even to his own. [ Balzac ]
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything deteriorates in the hands of man. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which by has. [ Epictetus ]
The best portion of a good man's life, -- his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. [ William Wordsworth ]
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. [ Henry Home ]
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. [ La Harpe ]
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
That man has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. [ Chamfort ]
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]
As the harbor is the refuge of the ship from the tempest, so is friendship the refuge of man in adversity. [ Demophilus ]
When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. [ Latimer ]
Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. [ Dr. Johnson ]
In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise than man's presumption on tomorrows' dawn? Where is tomorrow? [ Young ]
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. [ W. Cobbett ]
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. [ A. Karr ]
A man philosophizes better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be? [ E. de Girardin ]
No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. [ Johnson ]
The mean man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom meanness withholds some important benefit. [ Emerson ]
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of Work. [ Anthony Trollope ]
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve. [ Carlyle ]
The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. [ Confucius ]
No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. [ Seneca ]
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It seems to me as if not only the form, but the soul of man was made to walk erect, and look upon the stars.
[ Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. [ Bodenstedt ]
No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man Bias no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. [ Lamartine ]
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. [ Francis Wayland ]
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. [ Seneca ]
Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]
The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.
We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends. [ Carlyle ]
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. [ George MacDonald ]
No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. [ Haliburton ]
No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. [ Haliburton ]
It is a pleasure appropriate to man for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [ Ovid ]
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. [ Addison ]
Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. [ Addison ]
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Of all acts is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. [ Carlyle ]
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. [ Charles Buxton ]
If a man is a gentleman he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman whatever he knows is bad for him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. [ Montaigne ]
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works as by his patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. [ W. G. Simms ]
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. [ Aristotle ]
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, and in trembling for the future. [ Rivarol ]
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one: society does not exist on moral ideas only. [ Balzac ]
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. [ H. Ballou ]
Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. [ Swift ]
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. [ Emerson ]
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil, nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. [ Cicero ]
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. [ Cicero ]
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. [ Addison ]
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. [ L'Estrange ]
In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. [ Rückert ]
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]
I would give nothing for the Christianity of a man whose very dog and cat were not the better for his religion. [ Rowland Hill ]
The treasures of the deep are not so precious as are the concealed comforts of a man locked up in woman's love. [ Middleton ]
Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. [ Swift ]
'Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design. [ Renan ]
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. [ Lord Bacon ]
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. [ Bacon ]
As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]
In ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman's than the man's, as the choice depended on her the least. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. [ Phillips Brooks ]
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. [ Paxton Hood ]
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. [ Chesterfield ]
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. [ Bacon ]
Ah! when shall all men's good be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land? [ Tennyson ]
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. [ Thomas Brooks ]
Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]
The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm.
[ Goethe ]
A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. [ Seed ]
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. [ Saadi ]
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. [ Ruskin ]
The sowing of wild oats is necessary in the life of a man. Libertinism is a leaven that ferments sooner or later. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him wJth patience. [ A. Lang ]
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. [ Goethe ]
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. [ Sir J. Stevens ]
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. [ J. Q. Adams ]
Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man. [ John Morley ]
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. [ J. G. Holland ]
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees. [ Whately ]
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. [ Goethe ]
Ever take it for granted that man collectively wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Nature and Heaven command you, at your peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man. [ John Ruskin ]
A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. [ John Ruskin ]
Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. [ Diogenes ]
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. [ Ben Jonson ]
Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little, much beneath them. [ Addison ]
Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.
I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man.
[ Chamfort ]
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. [ Carlyle ]
Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. [ Swedenborg ]
Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. [ Propertius ]
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. [ William M. Thackeray ]
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. [ Charles Sumner ]
Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. [ Chapin ]
No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. [ Johnson ]
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. [ Lowell ]
Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
To a woman of delicate feeling, the most persuasive declaration of love is the embarrassment of an intellectual man. [ Latena ]
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. [ Chesterfield ]
Thought is the first faculty of man: to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. [ Raynal ]
A man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the flattering coxcomb. [ Henry Home ]
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. [ Francis Bacon ]
Here is no home for a man: every one drives past another hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after his pain. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. [ Emerson ]
The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of folly. [ Proverb ]
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man. nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. [ Theodore Parker ]
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. [ Richter ]
Much wishes man for himself, and yet needs he but little; for the days are short, and limited is the fate of mortals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. [ Seneca ]
He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ J. F. Clarke ]
A fellow who lives in a windmill has not a more whimsical dwelling than the heart of a man that is lodged in a woman. [ Congreve ]
Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times. [ Mlle, de Scuderi ]
The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
As his wife has been given to man as his best half, so night is the half of life, and by far the better part of life. [ Goethe ]
Upon all this history of man, mutability, apparently the most wayward and destructive, is written with a pen of iron. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of a single thing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. [ George Eliot ]
A beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. [ Clarendon ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
It hath been well said that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. [ Bacon ]
In observing the world's movements, the most melancholy man would become merry, and Heraclitus would die of laughter. [ Chamfort ]
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Every man turns his dreams into realities as far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]
No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. [ Capt. John Brown ]
There are three things a wise man will not trust - the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. [ Southey ]
Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. [ Carlyle ]
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. [ Watts ]
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance. [ J. G. Holland ]
A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]
Oft have I thought - jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience! [ Wieland ]
Man may go from aversion to love; but, when he has begun by loving, and has reached aversion, he never returns to love. [ Balzac ]
The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life which come to every one for hours of delight. [ Montesquieu ]
There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. [ C. Weber ]
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. [ George Eliot ]
The influence of custom is incalculable; dress a boy as a man and he will at once change his own conception of himself. [ Bayle St. John ]
You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]
Who is nobody? The man who lives for self, who has no affection for his own kin, and who lives a living he and knows it. [ James Ellis ]
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. [ Edward Herbert ]
Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. [ Pascal ]
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void. [ Seume ]
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in woman, by the heart: it is there that they are the most sensitive. [ Stendhal ]
We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]
Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [ Bible ]
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. [ F. W. Robertson ]
A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. [ J. G. Holland ]
To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. [ Burns ]
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]
Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. [ Lytton ]
No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]
There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. [ Weber ]
Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed she gives him success. [ Joubert ]
The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]
Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. [ Lavater ]
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [ Ben Jonson ]
Health is the greatest of all possessions, and it is a maxim with me that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick king. [ Bickerstaff ]
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. [ T. W. Higginson ]
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. [ Cecil ]
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all. [ Horace ]
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. [ Addison ]
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. [ Marc Andre ]
Since every man that lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal minds what happens let us bear. [ Dryden ]
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
You think much too well of me as a man. No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. [ Richter ]
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. [ Addison ]
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, - gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. [ Talleyrand ]
To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman is to form future generations. [ E. Laboulaye ]
To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]
Inexorable necessity has power over man; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. [ Stoboeus ]
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]
The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. [ Ovid ]
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. [ Dickens ]
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him. [ Ed ]
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. [ Chamfort ]
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [ Juvenal ]
Man is the highest product of his own history. The Discoverer finds nothing so tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. [ Theodore Parker ]
No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it. [ Hitopadesa ]
Life is rather a state of embryo, - a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death. [ Franklin ]
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. [ Thomas Paine ]
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]
Repentance is for pale faces; they killed Christ, the good man. If Christ had come to red men, we would not have killed him. [ Red Jacket ]
A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miserable sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. [ John Foster ]
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam or caloric or lightning. [ Chapin ]
Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. [ William Shakespeare ]
Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. [ Bismarck ]
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. [ Addison ]
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has commonsense on the ground floor. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Often a man is irregular in his conduct solely because his position does not allow him the monotonous pleasures of marriage. [ La Beaumelle ]
Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is the habit of party in England to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character. [ Lord John Russell ]
I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire, - not too near, lest he burn: nor too far off, lest he freeze. [ Diogenes ]
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas. [ Beecher ]
Before the immense possibilities of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]
A woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart forever against all confidence in her sex.
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. [ Milton ]
It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters. [ Carlyle ]
Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. [ Carlyle ]
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. [ Kossuth ]
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [ Cicero ]
God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. [ Heine ]
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. [ Benjamin F. Butler ]
Happy child! the cradle is still to thee a vast space; but when thou art a man the boundless world will be too small for thee. [ Schiller ]
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. [ Montesquieu ]
Silence, silence; and be distant, ye profane, with your jargonings and superficial babblements, when a man has anything to do. [ Carlyle ]
When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. [ Pascal ]
No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may. [ Carlyle ]
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]
There is a wide difference between the knowledge of men and the knowledge of man. To know man, it suffices to study one's self. [ Duclos ]
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. [ Bacon ]
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. [ Thomas Carlyle ]
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]
There are two freedoms, - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. [ Charles Kingsley ]
That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire. [ Chamfort ]
Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. [ Cervantes ]
Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man. [ Dugald Stewart ]
After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]
He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [ Cicero ]
When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. [ William Penn ]
A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If his titledeeds cover more, the surplus acres own him. not he the acres. [ R. F. Hallock ]
God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. [ T. Fuller ]
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. [ Horace ]
It has always struck me that there is a far greater distinction between man and man than between many men and most other animals. [ Basil Hall ]
Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. [ Cicero ]
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. [ Callenberg ]
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better - especially richer or more fashionable - than he is. [ Thackeray ]
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves. [ Addison ]
As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. [ Addison ]
Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. [ T. Carlyle ]
He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself. [ Talleyrand ]
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. [ Chapin ]
Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Man has here two and a half minutes, - one to smile, one to sigh, and half of one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. [ Richter ]
A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. [ John Ruskin ]
Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion. [ Addison ]
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]
The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. [ La Bruyere ]
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. [ Robert Leighton ]
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. [ Otway ]
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. [ Alexander Walker ]
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]
The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There are cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world, and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. [ Beaumelle ]
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. [ Emerson ]
A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes. [ La Bruyere ]
I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
[ Bacon ]
No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good. [ Cicero ]
Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]
Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]
The uniformity which history exhibits in the conduct of man in all ages and climes, is alone compatible with the system of necessity. [ Sir T. C. Morgan ]
People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses. [ Steele ]
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven. [ Feltham ]
A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child: as long as it pleases him, he keeps it; when it ceases to please him, he discards it.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. [ Chapin ]
Only if the spirit of man were not free, would the thought be a great one that there is a monarch of thought who rules over our souls. [ Platen ]
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [ Martial ]
When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times! [ Balzac ]
As the present character of a man, so his past, so his future. Who recollects distinctly his past adventures knows his destiny to come. [ Lavater ]
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. [ Philips Brooks ]
Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]
A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]
No dynamite will ever be invented that can rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. [ John Ruskin ]
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Lord Bacon ]
Of the things which man can make or do here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy, are the things that we call books. [ Carlyle ]
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things. [ Whately ]
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. [ Addison ]
Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all men. [ Holland ]
A homely man of merit is never repulsive: as soon as he is named, his physique is forgotten; the mind passes through it to see the soul. [ Romainville ]
He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. [ Tillotson ]
A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more, the man who is indifferent to everything. [ Lavater ]
To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires: a woman must resist her own inclinations, and the continual attack of man. [ Latena ]
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman her heart is her world. [ Grabbe ]
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered.
[ Lavater ]
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]
The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with great minds, become an inch greater. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. [ Thomas Brooks ]
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]
Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. [ Seneca ]
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. [ Addison ]
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. [ Thomas Adams ]
The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. [ A. Comte ]
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale. [ Kant ]
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]
The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. [ Wordsworth ]
Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]
A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]
He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child. [ Menander ]
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. [ Lowell ]
Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic. [ South ]
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]
The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust and everything priced above its proper value. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]
Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. [ James A. Garfield ]
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. [ Addison ]
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. [ Chapin ]
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. [ Selden ]
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. [ Seneca ]
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. [ Vauvenargues ]
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! [ Sterne ]
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]
The better a man is morally, the less conscious he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. [ Froude ]
Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say. [ Confucius ]
Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]
Not the mountain ice, congealed to crystals, is so frosty chaste as thy victorious soul, which conquers man, and man's proud tyrant, passion. [ Dryden ]
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. [ C. J. Fox ]
The happiest lot for a man as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. [ Whately ]
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A lover is a man who endeavors to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
He is worthy of honor, who willeth the good of every man; and he is much unworthy thereof, who seeketh his own profit, and oppresseth others. [ Cicero ]
What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? [ Carlyle ]
No greater misfortune can befall a man than to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. [ William Winter ]
At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. [ Cato ]
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. [ Junius ]
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. [ Seneca ]
The intellect of woman bears the same relationship to that of man as her physical organization; it is inferior in power and different in kind. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, raised to the second power, woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. [ Amiel ]
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]
How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. [ Spurgeon ]
The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship; and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer him hers.
He will steal himself into a man's favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. [ William Shakespeare ]
The way of the superior man is threefold - virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. [ Confucius ]
Of what is man certain? What lasts? What passes? What is chimerical? What is real? . . . Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. [ Victor Hugo ]
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. [ Burton ]
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]
Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. [ Drew ]
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [ Emerson ]
As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid. [ Lavater ]
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, - the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. [ Junius ]
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own. [ Thomas Wilson ]
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]
Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. [ Samuel Smiles ]
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? [ Thackeray ]
The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]
The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult. I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born. [ Stoddard ]
An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. [ Carlyle ]
Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. [ John Ruskin ]
I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. [ Carlyle ]
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. [ Locke ]
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]
The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. [ Hitopadesa ]
When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]
Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and the Pilgrim's Progress? [ Dr. Johnson ]
There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony. [ South ]
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast, that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way - an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. [ Hazlitt ]
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. [ Burke ]
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. [ Burke ]
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants - both know too much of him. [ Colton ]
When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. [ John Ruskin ]
Academical years ought by rights to give occupation to the whole mind. It is this time which, well or ill employed, affects a man's whole after-life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. [ Lowell ]
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [ Latimer ]
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
[ George Washington ]
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. [ Blackie ]
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. [ Feltham ]
How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and rest in heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]
Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? [ William Shakespeare ]
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in a fairer light. [ Lillo ]
That state of life is alone suitable to a man in which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. [ Bacon ]
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. [ Swift ]
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. [ George Macdonald ]
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury: for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiveness. [ Drummond ]
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]
The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mischievous. [ Anacharsis ]
This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. [ Aughey ]
I don't believe that the way to make a man love heaven is to disgust him with earth. Let us love all that is bright and beautiful and good in this world. [ Beecher ]
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink together; dwarfed or godlike, bond or free; if she be small, slight-natured, miserable, how shall men grow? [ Tennyson ]
His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; nor after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth. [ Pliny the Elder ]
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Every man's experience of today is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. Tomorrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion. [ Charles Mackay ]
Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance. [ Charles Kingsley ]
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. [ Dr. I. Watts ]
The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. [ Confucius ]
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. [ Amiel ]
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. [ Swift ]
I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. [ Feltham ]
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. [ Ward Beecher ]
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. [ Bacon ]
A man or a woman may be highly irritable, and yet be sweet, tender, gentle, loving, sociable, kind, charitable, thoughtful for others, unselfish, generous. [ Charles Buxton ]
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]
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. [ George Herbert ]
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. [ Dr. Horne ]
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]
One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed. [ South ]
The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant. [ Sataka ]
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. [ Milton ]
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. [ Selden ]
To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! [ Carlyle ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. [ Seneca ]
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. [ Sterne ]
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. [ Seneca ]
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]
A man who is not able to make a bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]
The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another. [ Pascal ]
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. [ Johnson ]
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure), but he would choose to die in Spain (where they say the Catholic religion is professed with great strictness). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! [ Swift ]
Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]
All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity. [ Voltaire ]
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]
And the prettiest foot; Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats, Ah! Mr. Trapland? [ Congreve ]
He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. [ Nevins ]
He is a wise man who knoweth that his words should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. [ Hitopadesa ]
The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. [ French Proverb ]
A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. [ Henry James ]
Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. [ Dr. Johnson ]
That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]
It is always considered as a piece of impertinence in England, if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinion at all upon important subjects. [ Sydney Smith ]
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced: never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. [ Theodore Parker ]
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. [ Emerson ]
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. [ Joseph Roux ]
No man will harbor any fear of degradation in the ranks of literature, because he has devoted his portion of ability and learning to the drudgery of a dictionary. [ C. Richardson ]
There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [ Seneca ]
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness. A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. [ Adam Smith ]
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. [ F. H. Hedge ]
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth. [ Sydney Smith ]
No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]
Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]
Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health. [ Bacon ]
Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. [ John Morley ]
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]
Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. [ Duke of Wellington ]
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. [ Carlyle ]
We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself. [ Izaak Walton ]
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]
It is a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man, that his earthly influence, which has a commencement, will never, through all ages, have an end. [ Aughey ]
Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life. [ Milton ]
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. [ Saadi ]
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]
Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]
Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
The great business of a man is to improve his mind and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. [ Pliny ]
When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]
There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. [ Carlyle ]
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other. [ Burton ]
God gives the mind, man makes the character. The mind is the garden, the character is the fruit; the mind is the white page, the character is the writing we put upon it. [ George S. Weaver ]
God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. [ Sydney Smith ]
When a man puts on a character he is a stranger to, there is as much difference between what he appears and what he is in reality as there is between a visor and a face. [ Bruyere ]
Is it not the realization of his enforced sufferings in this world that gives man the hope of a better life after death, as a just compensation for the miseries in this? [ De Finod ]
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]
The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the elevation of his position. [ Helvetius ]
A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. [ Smollett ]
The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]
Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]
To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]
The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death. [ A. de Musset ]
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. [ Henry Home ]
To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]
Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain. [ A. Barnes ]
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]
No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil. [ Lowell ]
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant. [ Horace ]
A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to love him, yet he soon finds consolation; a woman is less demonstrative when deserted, and remains longer inconsolable.
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]
No,
a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity. [ Johnson ]
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]
A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be. [ Landor ]
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. [ Addison ]
Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The finding of your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in the world. [ Carlyle ]
Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. [ Shenstone ]
Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]
There are treasures laid up in the heart - treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world. [ Buddhist Scriptures ]
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. [ Pascal ]
The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance; but the soul reveals itself in the voice only. [ Longfellow ]
Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
I cannot see why women are so desirous of imitating men. I could understand the wish to be a boa constrictor, a lion, or an elephant; but a man! that surpasses my comprehension. [ T. Gautier ]
The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]
It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]
He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. [ Carlyle ]
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. [ Bacon ]
I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. [ Addison ]
Light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs. [ Bacon ]
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. [ William Ellery Channing ]
A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]
I do not know in the whole history of the world a hero, a worthy man, a prophet, a true Christian, who has not been the victim of the jealous, of a scamp, or of a sinister spirit. [ Voltaire ]
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance. [ Carlyle ]
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]
He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]
Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]
Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. [ Rousseau ]
There is scarce any man who cannot persuade himself of his own merit. Has he commonsense, he prefers it to genius; has he some diminutive virtues, he prefers them to great talents. [ Sewall ]
That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. [ S. Hieron ]
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. [ Bolingbroke ]
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. [ Beecher ]
I have tormented the present with the preoccupations of the future; I have put my judgment in the place of Providence, and the happy child has been transformed into a care-worn man! [ E. Souvestre ]
The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. [ Pope ]
Every man may be, and at some time is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood he strings words like beads upon his thought. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. [ Emerson ]
There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth. [ Bacon ]
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, - words with little meaning, actions with little worth, - one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. [ Carlyle ]
Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [ Carlyle ]
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? [ Dr. Johnson ]
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. [ Emerson ]
Wisdom sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. [ N. P. Willis ]
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Caesar which are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's. [ Quarles ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. [ David Thomas ]
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. [ Montaigne ]
In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. [ Lord Herbert ]
Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. [ Zeno ]
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? [ Carlyle ]
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. [ Sir A. Alison ]
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. [ Lavater ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. [ Dickens ]
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken in their perilous mission. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]
Does the man live who has not felt this spur to action, in a more or less generous spirit? Emulation lives so near to envy that it is sometimes difficult to establish the boundary-lines. [ Henry Giles ]
Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. [ George Eliot ]
I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. [ Carlyle ]
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. [ Sterling ]
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. [ Tuckerman ]
Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's preexistence. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. [ Epictetus ]
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed,
is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed,
would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]
He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. [ Fuller ]
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]
Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct. [ Kossuth ]
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A cold-blooded learned man might, for anything I know, compose in his closet an eloquent book; but in public discourse, arising out of sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be eloquent. [ Erskine ]
A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]
Every age has its different inclinations, but man is always the same. At ten, he is led by sweetmeats, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by pleasure, at forty by ambition, at fifty by avarice. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into the valley of the shadow of death.
[ Mountford ]
There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]
Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. [ J. G. Holland ]
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. [ Fielding ]
Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. [ Carlyle ]
The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. [ Carlyle ]
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union. and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. [ Cicero ]
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. [ Demosthenes ]
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence. [ Southey ]
The tongue tells the thought of one man only, whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. [ Emerson ]
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]
Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend upon such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, yet is he not certain to win the game. [ George Herbert ]
What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]
Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]
Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]
Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Trust to me, judicious mother: do not make of your daughter an honest man, as if to give the lie to Nature; make her an honest woman, and be assured that she will be of more worth both to herself and to us. [ Rousseau ]
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. [ Chapin ]
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]
Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which man is lifted up above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, purity apprehends and tastes him. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]
When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]
The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]
A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]
Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]
A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. [ Euripides ]
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]
Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. [ Theodore T. Munger ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]
More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. [ Evelyn ]
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]
The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]
The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]
An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe: but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. [ O. W. Holmes ]
To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]
The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. [ A. Brisbane ]
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. [ Aristotle ]
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Character is like bells which ring out sweet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, resound with sweet music. [ Phillips Brooks ]
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward. [ Beecher ]
When a man's pride is subdued it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. [ Beecher ]
What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]
Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. To the Christian they are but the place at which he gathers breath for a nobler sentence. To Christ, the grave was but the hyphen between man and God, for He was God-man. [ Duffield ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]
A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. [ Juv ]
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. [ Jane Porter ]
Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude - the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid. [ B. L. Magoon ]
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]
But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action. [ Macaulay ]
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. [ Seneca ]
At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]
The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]
One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. [ Emerson ]
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library (the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford). [ James I ]
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. [ Jane Porter ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. [ Channing ]
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons. [ Hume ]
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]
A taste for flowers and a love for the beautiful, as exhibited in the wonders of creative power, are evidences of a refined and sensitive nature, and peculiar traits of character which distinguish man from the lower order of animals. [ Celestia R. Colby ]
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]
Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. [ Carlyle ]
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]
No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do today that you may enjoy tomorrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other. [ B. R. Haydon ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. [ W. E. Channing ]
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]
He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. [ Emerson ]
He is a treacherous supplanter and underminer of the peace of all families and societies. This being a maxim of an unfailing truth, that nobody ever pries into another man's concerns but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief. [ South ]
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]
Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]
Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]
Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]
Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature, - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Without woman, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragrant garlands. [ Chateaubriand ]
Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. [ James Hamilton ]
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]
Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]
I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity. [ Cicero ]
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]
It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.
Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours; and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves, - the creature of habits and infirmities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds.
A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]
The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]
When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]
Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage - the species Man from the genus Ape. [ Carlyle ]
Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]
Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. [ Sir John Herschel ]
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]
Every man, within that inconsiderable figure of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. [ Carlyle ]
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]
Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]
A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]
Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]
No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]
A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]
Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. [ Carlyle ]
The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. [ Carlyle ]
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]
No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillanimity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor without bitter execration. [ F. Wayland ]
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast — alternately tempestuous and serene — so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains. [ Burton ]
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. [ Lowell ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.
[ Steele ]
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. [ Beecher ]
Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]
What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]
Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. [ Colton ]
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it may be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. [ Cowley ]
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]
The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. [ Beaconsfield ]
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others would also read the man. [ Disraeli ]
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]
The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]
Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime.
A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. [ Cervantes ]
Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]
Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being? [ Acton ]
To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]
A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. [ Colton ]
The flitting sunbeam has been grasped and made to do man's bidding in place of the painter's pencil. And although Franklin tamed the lightning, yet not until yesterday has its instantaneous flash been made the vehicle of language: thus in the transmission of thought annihilating space and time. [ Professor Robinson ]
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal.
So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man.
Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]
Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [ Cervantes ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. [ Goethe ]
Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]
Morals are of inestimable value, for every man is born crammed with sin microbes, and the only thing that can extirpate these sin microbes is morals. Now you take a sterilized Christian - I mean, you take the sterilized Christian, for there's only one. Dear sir, I wish you wouldn't look at me like that. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Willmott ]
The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, - that it was a vain endeavor? [ Thoreau ]
It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]
Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]
From extensive acquaintance with many lands, I unhesitatingly affirm that everywhere God has provided pure water for man, and that the wines drunk are often miserable and dirty. I have found water everywhere that I have traveled, in China and India, Palestine and Egypt, - and everywhere water has been my beverage. [ Thomas Cook, the Tourist ]
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation - the realization of an idea by an act of the will. [ John Sterling ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times, Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. [ Emerson ]
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law. [ A. E. Kittredge ]
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]
Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. [ Addison ]
No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]
It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]
The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]
Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]
To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]
Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.
The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]
Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink: but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system. [ Thackeray ]
This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. [ Cicero ]
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]
There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]
Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]
The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn, We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. [ Thomas Starr King ]
Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]
Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]
It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]
An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again, knows what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience. [ John Foster ]
Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]
It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]
Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, Think again, bat man.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go. to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. [ Pascal ]
A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten. [ Langford ]
The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object - this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence - it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. [ Webster ]
It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]
Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man. [ Emerson ]
There is no moment like the present: not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. [ Miss Edgeworth ]
There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]
There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]
A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]
Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]
Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]
Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]
Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]
As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran?
[ Rev. Dr. Donne ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]
It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God.
It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]
It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]
Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]
Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out.
You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]
All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]