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Forests of middle-aged men in dark suitsall slightly redfaced from eating and drinking too mucha nightmare of elderly white males.
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.
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.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Ihavetamedmenof iron inmyday, shall Inot easilycrush these men of butter?
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
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!
Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.
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.
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.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.
Yesterday's men.
The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Avant tout, les artistes sont des hommes qui veulent devenir inhumains. Aboveall, artists aremenwhowanttobecome inhuman.
All men naturally desire knowledge.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
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,soft in the way that an octopus is soft, with tentacles that stifle and suffocate.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
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.
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?
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.
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?
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely tolerated, they are valued.
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything.We will know where we have gonewe will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation.
But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested init tells me nothing that does not vex or weary methe men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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.
Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M'Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to ravish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.
Learned mendo 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
Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.
The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind? Bacon
Wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and thereforeexceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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.
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.
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for theyare impediments to great enterprises, eitherof virtue or mischief.Certainly thebest works, and ofgreatest meritfor thepublic, haveproceededfromthe unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.
Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yetthey are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.
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.
Men of business have a solid judgment, a wonderful guessing power of what isgoing to happen, each in his own trade, but they have never practised themselves in reasoning out their judgments and in supporting their guesses byargument; probably if they did so, some of the finer and correcter parts of their anticipations would vanish.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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. '
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Talis, inquiens, mihi videtur, rex, vita hominum praesens in terris, ad comparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente, ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumaleadveniens unus passerum domum citissime, pervolaverit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen parvissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec vita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidve praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. 'Such,' he said,'O King, seems to me the present life of menon earth, incomparisonwiththattimewhichtousis uncertain, as if when on a winter's night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegnsa single sparrow should flyswiftly intothehall, and coming inat one door, instantly flyoutthrough another.Inthattime inwhichit is indoorsit isindeed nottouched by thefuryofthewinter, and yet, this smallest space of calmness being passed almost in a flash, from winter going into winter again, it is lost to your eyes. Somewhat like this appears the life of man; but of what follows or what went before, we are utterly ignorant.'
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
No wonder the really powerful men in our society, whether politicians or scientists, hold writers in contempt.Theydoit becausetheyget no evidence from modern literature that anybody is thinking about any significant question.
Les hommes ne veulent conna|"tre que l'histoire des grands et des rois, qui ne sert a' personne. Men wish to hear no stories but those about the great and powerful, which are no use to anyone.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.
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.
Forall men have one entranceinto life, and thelike going out.
Saying,We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.
Wine and womenwill make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
Let usnow praise famousmen, and our fathersthat begat us.
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying,Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
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.
We ought to obey God rather than men.
The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turnfromthesevanitiesuntotheliving God, whichmade heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
I am made all things to all men, that I might byall means save some.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
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.
Unrecorded, unrenowned, Men from whom my ways begin, Here I know you by your ground But I know you not within There is silence, there survives Not a moment of your lives.
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.
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.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Where robot mice and robot men, I said, run round in robot towns.
A cavalry commandersaid he had just been given a thousand new men who had never seen a horse and a thousand horses who had never seen a man.
Men are lived over again; the world is now as it was in ages past. 158
It isthe commonwonderof all men, howamong somany millions of faces, there should be none alike.
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.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
The best-laid schemes o' Mice an' Men 170 Gang aft a-gley.
Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
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.
For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to.
He's one of those men who argues by increments of noiseso that as you open your mouth he says another, cleverer, louder thing.
And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men! art thou!
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men are nearlyalways willing to believe what they wish.
La politique et le sort des hommes sont forme s par des hommes sans ide al et sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
Men multiply like Mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence.
I haven't the heart to take a minute from the men. The poor dears love it so.
Then tell me why Thisgoblin Honour which the world adores Should make men atheists and not women whores.
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.
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!
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.
Whereas, women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of womenwe do permit and give leave for the time to come that all women's parts be acted by women.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horseGerman.
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave.
'The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.'
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
An obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us, who haveallowed ittogo onand on with endless fury.
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!
Humorists are not happy men. Like Beachcomber or Saki orThurber they burn while Rome fiddles.
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.
Bloody men are like bloody buses You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear.
Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?and if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?
A few honest men are better than numbers.
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
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?
There is a good case for showing that airplanes, Debray machines, thetelephoneand theradio donot make men of today happier than those of former times.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great menand men only become great if they are determined to be so.
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that ideapossessing themthat what has been said has still not been said enough.
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not becausethey wanttosharewhatthey know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow- afflicted.
Education is impossible without love, without loving a few of the great men of the past.
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 centuriesin fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal their best thoughts.
We know, Mr.Wellerwe, who are men of the world that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.We cannot learn men from books.
What all men should avoid is the'shabby genteel'. No man ever gets over it You had better be in rags.
'Sensiblemen are all thesamereligion.' 'And pray what is that?' inquired the prince.'Sensible men never tell.'
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 felland 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.
Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
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.
As to abuseI thrive on it. Abuse, heartyabuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.
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.
Upon Saint Crispin's day Fought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England to carry; Oh, when shall English men With such acts fill a pen, Or England breed again Such a King Harry?
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream! See Bible106:5.
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poornot that men are wickedbut that men know so little of men.
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
The reason men are greater than animals isn't because we can dream of the starsit's because we have something they haven't.Greed.
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 Churchillwhether 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.
The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
America is a country of young men.
The life of men is painful.
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.
Dead men are serious.
In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
England istheparadise of women, thepurgatoryof men, and the hell of horses.
Menof power havenottimetoread; yet menwho donot read are unfit for power.
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
Theygoforth intoaworldof menwhoareas various as the sands of the sea; into a world of whose richness and subtlety they have no conception. They go forth into it with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds, and undeveloped hearts.
The historian must have a third quality as well: some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenand absurd.
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.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Much music marreth men's manners.
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowlyand deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius.Theresulting performance, though lessinspiring, is far more predictable.
The economic status of women generally depends on that of men generally, andthe economic status of women individually depends upon that of men individually, those men to whom they are related.
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.
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.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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?
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.
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.
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men?
Of course in nature the only ending is death, but death hardly ever happens when people are at their best. That is why we like tragedies. They show men energetically with their wits about them and deserving to do it.
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.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
The 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphon the level to which it belongs.
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan.
It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in italthough 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.
Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say
Like that of leaves is a generation of men.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
O! men with sisters dear, O! men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
All men are equal before a fish.
Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyperhaps 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?
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.
Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It's not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out ten times more talent than ever wars and sudden death do.
We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too!
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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.
I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.
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.
Equal and exact justice to all menfreedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.
I have become increasingly convinced that great men have strong elements of comicality in them.
Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero [smiling] must drink brandy.
I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to be writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.
There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
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.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacificand all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?
What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.
There was nothing noble-minded men could not do when they discovered they could slap time on their wrists just like that.
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.
Men are as chancyas children in their choice of playthings.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:'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.
The most persistent sound that reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
Kings and Desperate Men.
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a wordthe men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
My ambition is that men should have a voluptuous feeling when they look at the portraits I paint of women. Love interests me more than painting. My pictures are the love stories I tell to myself and which I want to tell others.
Men! The onlyanimal in the world to fear.
I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me When we came.
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.
Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
I know men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.
A court is onlyas sound as its jury, and a jury is onlyas sound as the men who make it up.
Asyougrowolder, you'll seewhitemen cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget itwheneverawhitemandoesthattoa black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
As for mefor me, the grass grew longer, and more sorrowful, and the trees were surfaced like flesh, and girls were no longer to be treated lightly but were creatures of commanding sadness, and all journeys through the valley were now made alone, with passion in every bush, and the motions of wind and cloud and stars were suddenly for myself alone, and voices elected me of all men living and called me to deliver the world, and I groaned from solitude, blushed when I stumbled, loved strangers and bread and butter, and made long trips through the rain on my bicycle, stared wretchedly through lighted windows, grinned wryly to think how little I was known, and lived in a state of raging excitement.
Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.
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.
I dislike almost all dogs, but Alsatians, I do truly believe, should be prohibited by law in any civilised country The more I see of dogs, the more I admire men.
All except the best men would rather be called wicked than vulgar.
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
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
A golden rule: we must judgemen, not by theiropinions, but by what their opinions make of them.
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 equalwe 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
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.
The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.
Successful politiciansare 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.
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging theworld intoawelterof bloodshedand death.
We have been too comfortable and too indulgentmany, perhaps, too selfishand 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.
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.
The businessman dealing with a large political question is reallya painfulsight.It doesseemtomethat businessmen, with a fewexceptions, are worse when theycometo deal with politics than men of any other class.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
Every time that I fill a high office, I make one hundred men discontented and one ungrateful.
For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.
The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.
The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos.
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.
Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.
While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
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.
I'll hae nae hauf-way hoose, buyaye be whaur Extremes meetit's the only way I ken To dodge the curst conceit o' bein'richt That damns the vast majority o'men.
My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.
Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Gli uomini si debbano o vezzeggiare o spegnere; perche si vendicano delle leggeri offese, delle gravi non possono. Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuriesfor heavy ones they cannot.
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
And the three men I admired most, The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died.
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
And the gods are absent and the men are still 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.
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.
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.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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.
Yet som men say in many partys of Inglonde that kynge Arthur ys nat dedeand men say that he shall com agayne, and he shall win the Holy Crosse.Yet I woll nat say that hit shall be so, but rather Iwoldesey: here inthys there ys wrytten uppon the tumbe thys: [Here lies Arthur, the once and future king].
Depuis qu'Eve fit pe cherAdam, toutes les femmes ont pris possession de tourmenter, tuer et damner les hommes. Ever since Eve made Adam sin, women have taken it upon themselves to torment, kill and damn men.
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.
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.
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.
Thus methinks should men of judgement frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth increaseth, so enclose Infinite riches in a little room.
My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat feet dance an antic hay.
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men do not say 'I shall live on.' Tomorrow's life's too late; live today.
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.
Fair quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence thy Sister dear! Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
How strangely hopes delude men.
A Gay VietnamVeteranThey gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.
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.
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, theyare in the happy condition of judicious, unencumbered travellers in Europe; they crossthe frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet bag.
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
There is nothing nameable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
Menalwaystry tomake virtues oftheir weaknesses.Fear of death and fear of life become piety.
Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities.
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.
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.
The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly, underwrite it with their lives.
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.
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.
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.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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
O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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.
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?
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
I'mtired ofeverlastingly being unnatural and neverdoing anything Iwantto doand I'mtired of pretending Idon't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.
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.
Thus you see, Sir, that these people are not so unpolished as we represent them.'Tis true, their magnificence is of a different taste from ours, and perhaps of a better. I am almost of opinion, they have a right notion of life. They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some sciencetowhichwe canneverattain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labours.Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.
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.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
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.
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.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
For it is men that make a city, and not its walls, nor its ships empty of men.
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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.Und wirwir 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.And wewe still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
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 combine This would I tell you, son of mine.
The kind of a man that men likenot womenis the kind of man that makes the best husband.
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
When men make gods, there is no God!
No, this vile world and I have long been jangling, And cannot part on better terms than now, When only men like thee are fit to live in't.
Whatever our forefathers were, or whatever they did or suffered, or were enforced to yield unto, we are the men of the present age, and ought to be absolutely free from all kinds of exorbitancies, molestations, or arbitrary power.
Thereare womentoday who never thoughtto envy men their manhood, but who would, at least for this purpose, be glad to be men.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.
The spirit that now resists your taxation in America isthe same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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.
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
Deeper and deeper, one's love of old friends; Fewer and fewer, one's dealings with young men.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
The most primitive men are the most credulous.
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.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.
Not to go back, is somewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance.
Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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 worldincluding 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.
All men are brothers, but, thank God, theyaren't all brothers-in-law.
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.
England isnot ruined becausesinewy brownmenfroma distant colony sometimes hit a ball further and oftener than our men do.
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
Nearly all our best men are dead! Carlyle,Tennyson, Browning,George Eliot!I'm not feeling very well myself.
Men, you are all marksmendon't one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes.
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.
Sempre que os homens sabidos lhe diziam palavras dif|ceis, ele sa|a logrado. Sobressaltava-se escutando-as. Evidentemente so serviam para encobrir ladroeiras. Mas eram bonitas. Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words.Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.
It is defiantthe desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilization to want to save a shred of its respectability.
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.
All industrial efficiency consists in trying to do with eight men what we have hitherto been doing with ten men. It consists in creating unemployment.
What vain, unnecessary things are men, How well we do without 'em!
The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
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.
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.
Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.
Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.
(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'.
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 itbut there is.
Homines dum docent discunt. Men learn while they teach.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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.
Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.
Manymenwould hardly misstheirheads, thereisso little in them.
Our Lordsaid that if men withheld their praise of him, 'the very stones would cry out', which they did as, later, they burst into Gothic cathedrals.
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
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
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.
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
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.
'Tis no shame for men Of his high birth to love a wench; his honour May privilege more sins. Next to a woman, He loves a running-horse.
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Chosen bya group of men in a smoke-filled room.
When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
He who drinks a tumbler of London Water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, Women and Children on the face of the globe.
As the French say, there are three sexesmen, women, and clergymen.
Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.
Beware of men bearing flowers.
Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily In living breasts, ykindled first above, Amongst th'eternal spheres and lamping sky, And thence poured into men, which men call Love.
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?
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.
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,
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.
En France, on e tudie les hommes; en Allemagne, les livres. In France, they study men; in Germany, books.
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.
Men are the Brahmin, women the Pariahs, under our existing civilization.
Wise men fish here.
Men are very fragile creatures. Their psyches are so closely tied to their epididymis.
Have not the wisest of men in all ages, not excepting Solomon himself,have they not had their Hobby- Horsesand so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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.
Oldmenand cometshavebeenreverenced for thesame reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
But God, if a God there be, is the substance of men which is man.
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.
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.
Some of my best leading men have been horses and dogs.
When men reach about the age of 50 they tend to digress and don't want to do anything.You can't inspire them to do anythingtheyalmost go to sleep in their bodies.
There lies the port; the vessel, puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheadsyou and I are old: Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and hearth: that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
O good grey head which all men knew!
For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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.
Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
The war between men and women.
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.
How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.
The worst crime is to leave a man's hands empty. Men are born makers, with that primal simplicity in every maker since Adam.
Madam, there are fifty thousand men slain this year in Europe, and not one an Englishman.
All those men have their price.
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
For sheer courage and endurance, physical and mental, the two men stand together as examples of what toughness the body will find, if the spirit within it is tough; and as very worthy representatives of our national capacity for individual enterprise, which it is hoped even themodern craze for regulating everydetail of our lives will never stifle.
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.
I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
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.
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, orat least thething that had been called by that name for the last four centuries.What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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 hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.
Men are so romantic, don't you think? They look for a perfect partner when what they should be looking for is perfect love.
It has been a damned serious businessBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of 40,000 men.
Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.
We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.
Iwill not permitthirtymentotravelfourhundredmilesto agitate a bag of wind.
The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelota 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.
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.
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half so goodluckily, it's not difficult.
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.
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.
Weary men, what reap ye?Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldierswhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were dead Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
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.
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.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
I travelled among unknown men In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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