Men Quotes

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walke

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George D. Prentice

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Pliny the Elde

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Martin Luthe

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexande

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Paul Goodman

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

The eleventh commandment - - - Thou shalt not be found out - - - Is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Hellen Kelle

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas