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 fear death as children fear to go in the dark. Bacon.

Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them. Goethe.

Men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth. Amiel.

Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise. 10 Jean Paul.

Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. Johnson.

Men have but too much cause to secure themselves from men. Goethe.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. Emerson.

Men have many faults; / Poor women have but two; / There's nothing good they say, / And nothing right they do. Anon.

Men have their metal, as of gold and silver. 15 Koran.

Men in all ways are better than they seem. Emerson.