Men Quotes
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.Alexander Pope
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.M Scott Peck
I am the toughest golfer mentally.Tiger Woods
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.H. L. Mencken
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.Wilfred Sheed
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.M. Henry
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.Dandemis
Why think? Why not try the experiment?John Hunte
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.Giosu, Borsi
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - They are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.Henri - Frederic Amiel
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.Paulson Frenckne
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
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
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.William John Bennett
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.Horace Mann
