Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them. Carlyle.

Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing. Pr.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade / Of that which once was great is passed away. Wordsworth.

Men are what their mothers made them. Emerson.

Men are wiser than they know. Emerson. 30

Men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. Tennyson.

Men at some time are masters of their fate. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanities. La Bruyère.

Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them. Johnson.

Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that 35 grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words. Much Ado, v. 1.