The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you... →
Frederick Pollock
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the... →
Iggy Pop
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they... →
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men... →
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.