« All Men Quotes · Edna St. Vincent Millay's Page
Men Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge…
- Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men…
- Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in…
- Life must go on, Though good men die.
- Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where…
- Man has never been the same since God died.
- What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
- There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
- Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll…
- Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who…
- Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
- And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And…
- But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
- SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a…
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle