Men Call Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.… — Loren Eiseley
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome… — James Thomas Fields
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no… — Ovid
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other… — Henry David Thoreau
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the… — William Clark
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Lord Byron
Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today. — J. Vernon McGee
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the… — John Ruskin
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only… — John Lothrop Motley
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the… — John Bunyan
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love. — Samuel Beckett
That power Which erring men call Chance. — John Milton
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I… — Gen Urobuchi
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. — Mark Twain
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. — John Milton
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. — Louise Erdrich
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .… — Henry David Thoreau
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo

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