The Ultimate Collection of Alpha Male Quotes for Men - page 19
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
Poul Anderson
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
Edmund Wilson
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?
Mary Edwards Walker
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
Abdu'l-Bahá
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Arthur Helps
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Sophocles
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
George S. Patton
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
Tennessee Williams
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
Robert Jordan
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings
