Men Quotes
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.Henry David Thoreau
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.Anthony Burgess
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.Paul Tillich, From a lecture
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.John Masefield
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Francis Kennedy
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.Wilson Mizne
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.Harlan Ellison
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.James Grover Thurbe
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
When women go wrong, men go right after them.Mae West
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.Publilius Syrus
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.Bernd Breche
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.Alexis Carrel
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
