Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing

Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' / the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it