Calamity Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those…

— Baruch Spinoza

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the…

— Charles Dickens

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

— Aesop

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles have been…

— Norah Vincent

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they…

— Charles Grandison Finney

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not…

— Blaise Pascal

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great…

— Charles Caleb Colton