Men

Famous quotes containing the word men:

“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

“I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they dare not trust their presentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails—aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)