"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult."

Man,

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Voice

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men, Goodness

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men, Training, University, World

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Risk

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, Lies, Literary, Satire

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, Time, Reputation

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, God, Knowledge

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Man,

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Man, Men, Time, Reason, State

"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Man,

Explore more quotes by John Churton Collins

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

Life

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

Friendship

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."

Advice

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."

Trust

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult."

Man

42

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

Explore more quotes by John Churton Collins

"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."

"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."

"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."

"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy."

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult."