Men Quotes

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffe

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

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

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwa

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leopold Stein

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.

Alfred Adle

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

George Steine

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Sophocles

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann