top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Men quotes
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
"Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall."
Explore more quotes by Rebecca H. Davis
"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us."
"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."
"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."
bottom of page