30,129 Quotes About Men

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Success is man's god.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.