Men

Famous quotes containing the word men:

    The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere
    Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere
    And eek as loude as dooth the chapel belle.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)