#men

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#coming #men #something #tell #truth

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#bathing #caught #clothes #conservative #enjoyment

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#been #called #console #fortune #great

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #expense #fame #few #fruition

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#circumstances #creature #creatures #free #free agents

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

— Diogenes

#godlike #gods #little #nothing #privilege

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. ↗

— William Blake

#great #great things #meet #men #mountains

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ↗

— William Blake

#explicit #grand #idiot #made #men

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#emotional #every #shift #tremendous

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#bills #commit #congress #country #fiscal