Geraldine Brooks Men Quotations

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.