"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."

Men,

51

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."

Exlpore more Men quotes

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Men, Wisdom, Knowledge, Fool

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Men, Conservative, Nation

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Men, Consequences, Fools

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Men, Nothing, Wrong

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Men, Forget

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Men, Right, World

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Men, Time, Women, Being

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Men, Adversity

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Men, Man, Right, Temptation

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Men, Difficulties

Explore more quotes by Thomas Otway

"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."

Clock

"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."

April

"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."

Ambition

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."

Men

51

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Men quotes

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Otway

"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."

"No praying, it spoils business."

"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us."

"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."

"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."

"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."