Quotes About Reflection

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

A man by himself is in bad company.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Account no man happy till he dies.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Man makes god in his own image.