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 can make an idol of the Bible. Ward Beecher.

Men can see through a barn-door, they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on't. George Eliot.

Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. Dr. Nott.

Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. Ruskin.

Men cannot live by lending money to each 40 other. Ruskin.

Men cannot live isolated; we are all bound together, for mutual good or else for mutual misery, as living nerves in the same body. No highest man can disunite himself from any lowest. Carlyle.

Men carry the head erect indeed, yet how mean and cringing are the thoughts within. Heine.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. Emerson.

Men chew not when they have no bread. Pr.

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, 45 speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom. Bacon.