men

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

—Newman,John Henry

A few honest men are better than numbers.

—Cromwell, Oliver

There is a good case for showing that airplanes, Debray machines, thetelephoneand theradio donot make men of today happier than those of former times.

—de Beauvoir, Simone

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

—Burns, Robert

To each his suff'rings, all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th'unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

—Gray,Thomas

All except the best men would rather be called wicked than vulgar.

—Lewis, C(live) S(taples)

All men are brothers, but, thank God, theyaren't all brothers-in-law.

—Powell, Anthony Dymoke

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

—Jefferson,Thomas

Four score and sevenyears ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal†we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 510

—Lincoln, Abraham

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

—Malamud, Bernard

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

—Bible (Old Testament)

All men are lonely.But sometimes it seems tomethat we Americans are the loneliest of all.Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease.

—McCullers, (Lula) Carson ne¤  e Smith

Forgive the hero, you who would have died Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide To Ararat; all men are Noah's sons.

—Wilbur, Richard

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all theyare. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

—French, Marilyn

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

—Golding, Sir William (Gerald)

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs reme'  des, et non de leurs maladies. Almost all men die from their medicines and not from their illnesses.

—Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782

—Shelley, Mary Godwin

Forall men have one entranceinto life, and thelike going out.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Burke, Edmund

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right,

—Spenser, Edmund

In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember 3 the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

—Adams, Abigail

As to abuseöI thrive on it. Abuse, heartyabuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

—Douglas, (George) Norman

I am made all things to all men, that I might byall means save some.

—Bible (NewTestament)

There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the worldöincluding ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than that of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

America is a country of young men.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Boys do now cry 'Kiss my Parliament!' instead of 'Kiss myarse!'so great and general a contempt is the Rump come to among all men, good and bad.

—Pepys, Samuel

Your country is more precious and more to be revered and is holier and in higher esteem among the gods and among men of understanding than your mother and your father and all your ancestors.

—Plato

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

—Tennyson

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

—Milton,John

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

—Pepys, Samuel

We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.

—West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield

What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Why is itthat girls so constantlydothis, so frequentlyask men who have loved them to be present at their marriages with other men? There is no triumph in it. It is done in sheer kindness and affection. They intend to offer something whichshall softenand not aggravatethe sorrow that they have caused† I fully appreciate the intention, but in honest truth,I doubt the eligibility of the proffered entertainment.

—Trollope, Anthony

   As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life; nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

—Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry)

The best-laid schemes o' Mice an' Men 170 Gang aft a-gley.

—Burns, Robert

Some of my best leading men have been horses and dogs.

—Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honne"  tes gens des sie'  cles passe¤  s, qui en ont e¤  te¤   les auteurs, et me"  me une conversation e¤  tudie¤  e en laquelle ils ne nous de¤  couvrent que les meilleures de leurs pense¤  es. Thereadingof good booksislikea conversationwiththe best men of past centuriesöin fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal their best thoughts.

—Descartes, Rene¤

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:ö'Oh, how beautiful!'and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Beware of men bearing flowers.

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

Bloody men are like bloody busesö You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear.

—Cope,Wendy

Where is the antique glory now become, What whilom wont in women to appear? Where be the brave achievements doen by some? Where be the battles, where the shield and spear, And all the conquests, which them high did rear, That matter made for famous poet's verse, And boastful men so oft abashed to hear? Bene theyall dead, and laid in doleful hearse? Or doen they only sleep, and shall again reverse?

—Spenser, Edmund

Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.

—Webster,John

Books are written by martyr-men, not for rich men alone but for all men. If we consider it, every human being has, by the nature of the case, a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

—Carlyle,Thomas

   Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

—Alcaeus

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated [this ground], far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but itcannever forget what they did here.

—Lincoln, Abraham

Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyöperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. † Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?

—Hope, A(lec) D(erwent)

Sin duda la cercan|¤a de la muerte y la fraternidad de las armas producen, en todos los tiempos y en todos los pa|¤ses, una atmo¤  sfera propicia a lo extraordinario, a todo aquello que sobrepasa la condicio¤  n humana y rompe el c|¤rculo de soledad que rodea a cada hombre. No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-wars, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produce an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.

—Paz, Octavio

Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.

—Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

Fair quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence thy Sister dear! Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men.

—Marvell, Andrew

Towered cities pleased us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.

—Milton,John

   Gott ist tot: aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht nochJahrtausende lang H o« hlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt.öUnd wiröwir mu«  ssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen! God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years inwhich his shadow will be shown.öAnd weöwe still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and theregressiseithera downfall, orat least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

   A new commandment I give unto you,That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in itöalthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.We cannot learn men from books.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I challenge all the men alive To say they e'er were gladder, Than boys all striving, Who should kick most wind out of the bladder.

—Anonymous

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, of human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

—Milton,John

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

—Hardy,Thomas

'The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.'

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent MrToad.

—Grahame, Kenneth

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

—Wilbur, Richard

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to dowith capitalism.Thisimpulse exists among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.One may say that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all cultures of the earth, wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given.

—Weber, Max

It isthe commonwonderof all men, howamong somany millions of faces, there should be none alike.

—Browne, SirThomas

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he isgreater than they.

—Ruskin,John

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Dead men are serious.

—50 Cent originally  CurtisJackson

Deeper and deeper, one's love of old friends; Fewer and fewer, one's dealings with young men.

—Po Chu«  -I

The economic status of women generally depends on that of men generally, and†the economic status of women individually depends upon that of men individually, those men to whom they are related.

—Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of 40,000 men.

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of those faculties is the first object of government.

—Madison,James

We must protect big business from domination by fat- minded men whose principal business policy is to avoid a competitive race for efficiency† They believe in a system of soft enterprise,ösoft in the way that an octopus is soft, with tentacles that stifle and suffocate.

—Arnold,ThurmanWesley

Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

   A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

—Spenser, Edmund

Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.

—Nashe,Thomas

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

—Fuller,Thomas

The labor of women inthehouse, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way [they] are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

—Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

—Honorius of Autun

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

—Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.

—Read, Sir Herbert Edward

How glorious it would be in the eyes of God and men, if we managed to hunt the Catholics from England, follow them to France, and, like the bold King of Sweden, rouse the Protestants in France, plant our religion in Paris by agreement or force, and go from there to Rome to chase the Antichrist and burn the town whence superstition comes.

—Leslie, David

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

—Pericles

The fancy of the mass of men is incredibly weak; it can see nothing without a visible symbol, and there is much that it can scarcely make out with a symbol.

—Bagehot,Walter

And every warrior that is rapt with love Of fame, of valour, and of victory, Must needs have beauty beat on his conceits: I thus conceiving and subduing both, That which hath stopped the tempest of the gods, Even from the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds'flames, And march in cottages of strowe'  d weeds, Shall give the world to note, for all my birth, That virtue solely is the sum of glory, And fashions men with true nobility.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

—Allingham,William

There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together. Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

—Browning, Robert

Madam, there are fifty thousand men slain this year in Europe, and not one an Englishman.

—Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford

When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all itsthreatening evils, supplies atraining- school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

Don Francesco was a fisher of men, and of women. He fished ad maiorem Dei gloriam, and for the fun of the thing. It was his way of taking exercise.

—Douglas, (George) Norman

   Forests of middle-aged men in dark suits†all slightly redfaced from eating and drinking too much†a nightmare of elderly white males.

—Abbott, DianeJulie

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

—Arnold,Thomas

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsöfun, fun, fun!öand the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.

—Lowell, Amy

Very God of very God,Begotten, not made,Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.

—Book of Common Prayer

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

—Locke,John

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

—Freud, Sigmund

No cord norcable cansoforciblydraw, orhold sofast, as love can do with a twined thread.The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zonecannot avoid orexpel thisheat, fury, and rage of mortal men.

—Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior

   The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelotöa magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

—White,Theodore H(arold)

Like that of leaves is a generation of men.

—Homer   8c

Les bienfaits des hommes sont accompagne¤  s d'une maladresse si humiliante pour les personnes qui les re c° oivent! The generosity of men is accompanied by such a humiliating embarrassment for those who benefit from it.

—Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

—Milton,John

I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed: Gods and men, we are all deluded thus! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We have seen Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, Straight mindsgrown crooked fighting crooked minds. Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. Look at it well.This was the good town once.

—Muir, Edwin

A government of laws, and not of men.

—Adams,John

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

—1st Baron

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Great men are almost always bad men. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

—Acton of Aldenham

I have become increasingly convinced that great men have strong elements of comicality in them.

—Jenkins (of Hillhead), Roy HarrisJenkins, Baron

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillöwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.

—Elton, Sir Geoffrey Rudolph

Education is impossible without love, without loving a few of the great men of the past.

—Desbiens,Jean-Paul

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

—Marlowe, Christopher

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: 'Spanishships of warat sea! Wehavesighted fifty-three!' Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: ''Fore God I am no coward; But I cannot meetthem here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but followquick. Wearesix ships oftheline; canwefight withfifty-three?' Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: 'I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.' So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven.

—Tennyson

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

—Tennyson

Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.

—Burns, Robert

Votre plaisir g|"t de¤ s honorer les femmes, et votre honneur tuer les hommes en guerre; qui sont deux points formellement contraires a'   la loi de Dieu. Your pleasure lies in dishonouring women and your honour lies in killing men at war; two acts which stand in contradiction to the law of God.

—Marguerite d'Angoule"  me

Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?öand if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?

—Cornford, Frances ne¤  e Darwin

But if marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, is it not to be wondered that so few succeed, we should rather be surprized to find so manydo, considering how imprudently menengage, the motive they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.

—Astell, Mary

How strangely hopes delude men.

—Massinger, Philip

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

—Marvell, Andrew

Humorists are not happy men. Like Beachcomber or Saki orThurber they burn while Rome fiddles.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

Every time that I fill a high office, I make one hundred men discontented and one ungrateful.

—Louis XIV knownas the Great or leRoiSoleil [theSunKing]

   The tall, impossibly tall, incomparably tall, city shoulderingly upwards into hard sunlight leaned a little through the octaves of its parallel edges, leaningly strode upwards into firm, hard, snowy sunlight; the noises of America nearingly throbbed with smokes and hurrying dots which are men and which are women and which are things new and curious and hard and strange and vibrant and immense, lifting with a great ondulous stride firmly into immortal sunlight†

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

—Winterson,Jeanette

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

—Plath, Sylvia

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

—Astell, Mary

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

—O Henry pseudonym of  William Sydney Porter

What isgovernment itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

—Madison,James

   Our Lord†said that if men withheld their praise of him, 'the very stones would cry out', which they did as, later, they burst into Gothic cathedrals.

—Sheen, FultonJohn

Are simple women only fit To dress, to darn, to flower or knit, To mind the distaff, or the spit? Why are the needle and the pen Thought incompatible by men? 507

—Lewis, Esther married name  Clark

En France, on e¤  tudie les hommes; en Allemagne, les livres. In France, they study men; in Germany, books.

—Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

Successful politicians†are insecure and intimidated men. Theyadvance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

—Lippmann,Walter

If Nature had not befriended us with beauty, and other good graces, to help us to insinuate our selves into men's affections, we should have beenmore enslaved thanany other of Nature's creatures she hath made.

—Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely tolerated, they are valued.

—Aung San Suu Kyi

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

—Dworkin, Andrea

The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Equal and exact justice to all men†freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedöthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

—Jefferson,Thomas

And chiefly thou O spirit, that does prefer Before all temples th'upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I mayassert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 580

—Milton,John

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it.

—Peacock,Thomas Love

Kings and Desperate Men.

—Kronenberger, Louis

And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men! art thou!

—Rochdale

Learned men†do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller. 46

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

—Amin (Dada), Idi

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Let usnow praise famousmen, and our fathersthat begat us.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

   Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

—Shaw, George Bernard

   The life of men is painful.

—Euripides

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

—McKay, Claude originally Festus Claudius

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

—Arnold, Matthew

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It has been a damned serious businessöBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingöthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life† By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

—Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

—Burke, Edmund

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

—Sophocles

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

—La Rochefoucauld, Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each: They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.

—Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

—Pope, Alexander

Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous.

—Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in scarceness.

—Book of Common Prayer

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

—Bible (NewTestament)

  Affairs of the world he could treat competently; he had a head for high politics and the management of men; the femininehalfoftheworldwasa confusionandavexation to his intelligence, characterless; and one woman at last appearing decipherable, he fancied it must be owing to her possession of character, a thing prized the more in women because of his latent doubt of its existence.

—Meredith, George

The kind of a man that men likeönot womenöis the kind of man that makes the best husband.

—Norris, Frank Benjamin Franklin

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a'   ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious. '

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

Manymenwould hardly misstheirheads, thereisso little in them.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men?

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

A Gay VietnamVeteranöThey gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.

—Matlovich, Leonard

The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind? Bacon

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in†it tells me nothing that does not vex or weary me†the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

—Austen,Jane

Menalwaystry tomake virtues oftheir weaknesses.Fear of death and fear of life become piety.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

   Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.

—Pope, Alexander

In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

—Eban, Abba originally Aubrey Solomon

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

—Shaw, George Bernard

(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a man in the smoker where he isgoing and he answers: 'Omaha'.

—Sandburg, Carl

We have been too comfortable and too indulgentömany, perhaps, too selfishöand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.

—Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

Men are as chancyas children in their choice of playthings.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

The worst crime is to leave a man's hands empty. Men are born makers, with that primal simplicity in every maker since Adam.

—Walcott, Derek Alton

Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

—Dryden,John

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no-one's likely to do anything about that.

—Meir, Golda

All men are equal before a fish.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.

—Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always onesidetothem, and they think there isno other, because they don't see itöbut there is.

—Iron

Men are lived over again; the world is now as it was in ages past. 158

—Browne, SirThomas

Nempe falluntur homines, quod se liberos esse putant; quae opinioinhoc soloconsistit, quodsuarum actionum sint conscii, et ignari causarum, a quibus determinantur. Haec ergo est eorum libertatis idea, quod suarum actionum nullam cognoscant causam. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; and this opinion consists of this alone, that theyare conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined. This, therefore, is their idea of liberty, that they should know no cause of their actions.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men are nearlyalways willing to believe what they wish.

—Caesar, Irving

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

—Mackintosh, SirJames

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Jamais je ne m'assujettis aux heures: les heures sont faites pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures. I never subject myself to hours: hours are made for men; men are not made for hours.

—Rabelais, Fran c° ois

I know men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.

—Lee, Gypsy Rose stage-name of  Rose Louise Hovick

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather forhow theiracts are defined.Thisiswhy men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

—Szasz,Thomas Stephen

Men are so romantic, don't you think? They look for a perfect partner when what they should be looking for is perfect love.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

   And the gods are absent and the men are stillö Noli me tangere, my soul is forfeit. Some are now happy in the hive of home, Thigh over thigh and a light in the night nursery, And some are hungry under the starry dome And some sit turning handles.

—MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

Men are the Brahmin, women the Pariahs, under our existing civilization.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it Macaulay down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till theyare fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever.

—1st Baron

Men are very fragile creatures. Their psyches are so closely tied to their epididymis.

—Stephenson, Bette

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

—Milton,John

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth.

—Milton,John

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

—Defoe, Daniel

I'mtired ofeverlastingly being unnatural and neverdoing anything Iwantto do†and I'mtired of pretending Idon't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

—Mitchell, Margaret

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra

The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk.

—Whittier,John Greenleaf

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of Labourers' Unions.

—Ruskin,John

How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.

—Trollope, Anthony

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night inthe dusty recesses of their mindswake inthe day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the dayare dangerous men, for they mayact their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

—Arabia

   Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they can scarcely trace how, rather than root them out.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

—Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote

Women are from their very Infancy debarred those advantages, with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect brick where theyafford no straw.

—Astell, Mary

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

The only real thing they accomplish that I can see is to make men feel a little more secure in their consciences about doing evil.

—More, SirThomas

No man can point to any law in the U.S. by which slavery was originally established. Men first make slaves and then make laws.

—Washington Bailey

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

—Anonymous

  Unrecorded, unrenowned, Men from whom my ways begin, Here I know you by your ground But I know you not withinö There is silence, there survives Not a moment of your lives.

—Blunden, Edmund Charles

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Men have everyadvantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

—Austen,Jane

All those men have their price.

—Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

—Sandys, George

The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Chosen bya group of men in a smoke-filled room.

—Simpson, Kirke L

What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combineö This would I tell you, son of mine.

—Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska

Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women, until men in considerable number are prepared to join with them in the undertaking.

—Mill,John Stuart

The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly, underwrite it with their lives.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

   Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Whereas, women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women†we do permit and give leave for the time to come that all women's parts be acted by women.

—Charles II

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

—Pope, Alexander

In so far as the familyas an institution turns women into darling littleslaves andmenintotheirchief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of purely private solution.

—Mills, C(harles) Wright

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell†and when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe 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 the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.

—Donne,John

And nowe in the winter, when men kill the fat swine They get the bladder and blow it great and thin, With many beans and peason put within: It ratleth, soundeth, and shineth clere and fayre While it is throwen and caste up in the ayre, Each one contendeth and hath a great delite With foote and with hands the bladder for to smite; If it fall to grounde, they lifte it up agayne, But this waye to labour they count in no payne.

—Anonymous

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor†not that men are wicked†but that men know so little of men.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

Homines dum docent discunt. Men learn while the