God is the poet, men are but the actors.
God is the poet, men are but the actors.
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent idealsthat is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories