top of page

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."

Stendhal, French Writer

Man, Men, Woman, Youth

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"Let no such man be trusted."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Man, Men, Gods, Universe

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

Man, May, Opposition, Persecution

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Man, Men, Fortune

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Man, Men, Eagles, Solitude

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Explore more quotes by Stendhal

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."

"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."

"Friendship has its illusions no less than love."

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."

"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."

"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."

"Only great minds can afford a simple style."

bottom of page