Men are at best only stewards, and they are 35 very select men indeed who are elected of heaven to this honour. The most want the necessary discrimination, and are in their place only when, like Athenian maidens, "bearers of the basket." Ed.
Men are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain. Dryden.
Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified. Emerson.
Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly. Swift.
Men are enlisted for the labour that kills; let them be enlisted for the labour that feeds; and let the captains of the latter be held as much gentlemen as the captains of the former. Ruskin.
Men are eternally divided into the two classes 40 of poet (or believer, maker, and praiser), and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser). Ruskin.
Men are everything, measures are comparatively nothing. Canning.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. W. Penn.
Men are happy in proportion as their range of vision, their sphere of action, and their points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed. Schopenhauer.
Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Bishop Butler.