Men Quote by William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Download Open image “No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.” — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Towns
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling 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