Every man Quote by Joe Abercrombie

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so…

— Plato

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.

— Kim Brooks

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

— Pliny the Elder

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their…

— Edmund Spenser

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

— Henry David Thoreau

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

— Norm MacDonald

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which…

— Lord Melbourne

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

— James Allen

“Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves…

— Wilkie Collins

“Long ago there was a man that was crucified for being too loving and too lovable. And strange to relate I met him thrice…

— Kahlil Gibran

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

— Thomas Pynchon

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of…

— Herman Melville