"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men." ― Benjamin Disraeli Topic(s): Men Tags: strength More From Benjamin Disraeli "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter." "If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief." "Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." More In Men "Time takes away the grief of men."― Desiderius Erasmus "Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."― Aeschylus "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another."― Desiderius Erasmus