30,129 Quotes About Men

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.