Body Quote by Francis Bacon

“The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their…

— Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

— Francis Bacon

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not…

— Willard Gaylin

Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of…

— Joshua Reynolds

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

— Joshua Chamberlain

“Since human fatherhood, as a reflection of the Fatherhood of God, was designed to be the pillar of the family, the disappearance of esteem…

— Joseph A. Cirrincione

“In my career and life I have watched many men fail. They didn’t fail because they weren’t passionate. They didn’t fail because they didn’t…

— Darrin Patrick

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor…

— Albert Pike

“...this 'fecundity of will,' this thirst for action, when accompanied by poverty of feeling and intellect incapable of creation, will produce nothing but a…

— Peter Kropotkin

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer