Advantage Quote by William Shakespeare

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

— Philip Sidney

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in…

— Sam Walter Foss

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

— Croesus

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their…

— John Locke

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

— Richard Whately

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld