Fronts Quote by Jonathan Swift

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all…

— Paulo Coelho

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of…

— Baltasar Gracian

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around…

— Moderata Fonte

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

— Austin O'Malley

“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying…

— Terry Lee Rioux

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

— William Shenstone

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

— Cassandra Clare