Quotes of Guy - somelinesforyou

“ Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ”

- George Chapman

“ A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten.". ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men. ”

- Cicero Pro Ligario

“ It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men. ”

- Mae West

“ Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory; but boys, it is all hell. ”

- William Tecumseh Sherman

“ Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it. ”

- C. C. Colton

“ Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ”

- Sam Walter Foss

“ Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men. ”

- Francis Picabia

“ Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. ”

- Cicero

“ Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ”

- Richard Mitchell

“ The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. ”

- Confucius

“ Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ He had the vanity to believe men did not like him — while men simply did not know him. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ How use doth breed a habit in a man! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. ”

- John Ruskin

“ I wish to substitute humanity for superstition, the love of our fellow men, for the fear of God. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll
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