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Men Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
- Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
- The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted…
- That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
- Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
- I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
- We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.…
- Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
- And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
- Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
- I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
- The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
- A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade...
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- 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
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