Famous Quotes

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

Maurice Maeterlinck on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

• "We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

• "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

• "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

• "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

• "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."