Men Quotes

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Unknown

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Dave Barry

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

Anonymous

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.

Bill Bowerman

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippman

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

David Hume

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne