Character Quote by Edmund Burke

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction.

— Anonymous

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by…

— Anthony Trollope

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.…

— Walter Isaacson

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament…

— Francis Bacon

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly…

— Richard Baxter

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them.…

— Charles Spurgeon