Men Quotes
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.Seneca
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.Archibald Alexande
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.John Perry Barlow
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
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
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.Kathleen Norris
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.Dame Edith Sitwell
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.Edna Ferbe
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.Leopold Stein
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.Jesse Louis Jackson
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.Stephen Jay Gould
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Abraham Lincoln
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.John Von Neumann
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.Clare Booth Luce
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.Laurence Pete
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.Fred Allen
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.Ayn Rand, Anthem
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Greek Prove
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.George Bernard Shaw
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.Robert Southey
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
