Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry.

Integrity of life is fames best friend which nobly beyond death shall crown in the end.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Whether we fall by ambition blood or lust like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows daws and starlings that flock together.

Man may his fate foresee but not prevent ... Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.