Famous quotes containing the word men:
“Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. They prefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)