Every man Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “I would have every man write what he knows and no more.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every man Knows Men Writing
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
