top of page

"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young."

Antony Jay, British Writer

40

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Man, Men, Society

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Right, Wind

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, Company, Grief

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Sea, Shipwreck

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, God, Statesman

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Explore more quotes by Antony Jay

"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."

"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."

"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."

"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young."

bottom of page