« All Men Quotes · Ford Madox Ford's Page
Men Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
- In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion…
- I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.
- There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting…
- I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
- We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.…
- The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It…
- He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it…
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