Famous Quotes

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

Alexander Pope on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Alexander Pope

• "Health consists with temperance alone."

• "Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

• "So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

• "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."

• "All nature is but art unknown to thee."