Jean Paul Men Quotations

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.