Gossip Quote by Alexander Pope

“We must limit the running to and fro which most men practise, rambling about houses, theatres, and marketplaces. They mind other men's business, and…

— Seneca

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to…

— Russell Kirk

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

— Robert Herrick

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

— Washington Irving

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

— Gustave Flaubert

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather…

— Solon

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all…

— Theodore Roosevelt