Man Quotes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!

Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

A man that can master patience can master anything.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

In the stars is written the death of every man.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.