Accounts Quote by Thomas Browne

“It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Great men are not known by their sizes, but by the greatness in their characters”

— OladosuOlatayo

I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them,…

— James Salter

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

— Lu Xun

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired…

— Michel de Montaigne