Consent Quote by Samuel Johnson

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

— Joseph Addison

A man cannot leave his wisdom and his experience to his heirs.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but…

— Herman Melville

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it…

— Anonymous

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

— Anonymous

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

— William Bradford

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

— Anonymous

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

— Anonymous

“[G]enerosity... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one find a…

— Chrétien de Troyes

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

— Marianne Moore

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld