Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.

For in misery men grow old quickly.

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are always fully engrossed with the things they are doing. For indeed few men are idle in democratic nations; life is passed in the midst of noise and excitement, and men are so engaged in acting that little remains to them for thinking. I would especially remark that they are not only employed, but that they are passionately devoted to their employments. They are always in action, and each of their actions absorbs their faculties: the zeal which they display in business puts out the enthusiasm they might otherwise entertain for idea.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.