Men Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Nails Usefulness
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures." "And we're not?" "Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending.… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands. — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 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
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image