Quote by Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Labor
Read Quote

Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Sadness
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Men
category

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world – not his own light, but that of Christ. – Pope Benedict XVI

Category:
Men

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Men

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Men

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Men

Random Quotes

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. – Theophile Gautier

Category:
Beauty

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. – Germaine Greer

Category:
Men

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Nature

Jody Hill, who I created Eastbound And Down and Fist Foot Way with, was my best man at my wedding. – Danny McBride

Category:
wedding