Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

“There's more things in the world that are old and deep than these men of philosophy and science we're infested with these days can…

— Brian Ruckley

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

— J. G. Holland

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the…

— Washington Irving

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

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

— Vance Havner

There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

“Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been…

— Michel de Montaigne

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a…

— Francis Bacon