Quotes by Men When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. A. E. Housman wise heart men They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. A. E. Housman lad glory men To justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman drinking men way But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts A. E. Housman heart men thinking There, like the wind through woods in riot, A. E. Housman change wind men Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man. A. E. Housman men book interesting Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. A. E. Waite evil tree men Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. A. H. Weiler laziness sloth men Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged. A. J. Burnett be-encouraged truth men Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment. A. J. Liebling wine stupid men Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. A. J. Liebling he-man media men Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments. A. J. Liebling lasts taste men A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. A. J. Liebling glasses eye men Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight. A. J. McLean gay men thinking If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own. A. J. P. Taylor respect-each-other ifs men In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. A. J. P. Taylor power beer men In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction. A. J. P. Taylor opinion behaviour men We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. A. J. P. Taylor infinite behaviour men The wisest man knows he know nothing. A. Lee Martinez wisest-man knows men To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything. A. Lee Martinez poor-decisions worry men «1234567891011»