top of page

"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

Man, Men, Judgment, Wit

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Men, Act, Fate

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, Party

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

"No man may make another free."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

Voltaire, French Writer

"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

Kate Millett, American Activist

Man, Men, Behavior

Explore more quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."

"One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all."

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."

"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."

"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father."

"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."

"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."

"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."

"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

bottom of page