Men Quotes

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Valdemar W. Setze

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

George Will

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Sue Grafton

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

George Fabricius

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

I 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

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Marcel Proust

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

So long as there are men there will be wars.

Albert Einstein