Men Quote by Anonymous

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

— Epictetus

“Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and if you…

— J.D. Salinger

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

— Ihara Saikaku

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

— Norm MacDonald

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have…

— H. L. Mencken

“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities…

— John Steinbeck

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

— George MacDonald

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

— William Butler Yeats

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon