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 will forget what we suffer, and not what 15 we do. Tennyson.

Men will marry a fool that sings, sooner than one that has learned to scoff. Dr. Walter Smith.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it—anything but live for it. Colton.

Men work themselves into atheistical judgments by atheistical practice. Whichcote.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Pope.

Men would not live long in society, were they 20 not the mutual dupes of each other. La Roche.

Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight. Pr.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Emerson.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Ward Beecher.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water. Henry VIII., iv. 2.