Men Quotes

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayym

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

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjamin Franklin

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Chris Evert

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

Nicholas Chamfort

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

Paul Tillich, From a lecture

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

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

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan