Men Quotes by Thomas Browne

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

— Thomas Browne

The man without a navel still lives in me.

— Thomas Browne

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

— Thomas Browne

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

— Thomas Browne

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

— Thomas Browne

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

— Thomas Browne

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial…

— Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

— Thomas Browne

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but…

— Thomas Browne

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason…

— Thomas Browne

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

— Thomas Browne

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

— Thomas Browne

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the…

— Thomas Browne

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be…

— Thomas Browne

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world…

— Thomas Browne

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not…

— Thomas Browne

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed…

— Thomas Browne

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not…

— Thomas Browne

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis…

— Thomas Browne

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,…

— Thomas Browne

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly…

— Thomas Browne

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will…

— Thomas Browne

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;…

— Thomas Browne

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord…

— Thomas Browne

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of…

— Thomas Browne

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of…

— Thomas Browne

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and…

— Thomas Browne

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one…

— Thomas Browne

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

— Thomas Browne

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

— Thomas Browne

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

— Thomas Browne

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand…

— Thomas Browne

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

— Thomas Browne

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

— Thomas Browne

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

— Thomas Browne

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor…

— Thomas Browne

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the…

— Thomas Browne

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I…

— Thomas Browne