Men Quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

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

Thomas Jefferson

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly magazine be your entertainment.

Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Jean R. Langley

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmond Burke

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive