Famous quotes containing the word men:
“These men are worth
Your tears: You are not worth their merriment.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)