Men Quotes
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.Edward Telle
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.William Shakespeare
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.W. M. L. Jay
Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.B. A. Fajimi
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.Clarence Thomas
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.Charles Simmons
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.Sir John A. MacDonald
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.Richard Clark
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.George Bernard Shaw
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
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 majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Napoleon Hill
There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.C. C. Colton
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.Kahlil Gibran
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.William Shakespeare
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.Doug Hall
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.Louis D. Brandeis
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
