30,129 Quotes About Men

A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.