Thomas Hood Men Quotations

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?