Men Quotes
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
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
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Home
When women go wrong, men go right after them.Mae West
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.Ellen Glasglow
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.Ashely Montagu
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.Sallust, The War with Catiline
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.W. T. Ussery
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
A single fact can spoil a good argument.Anonymous
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.Chester Bowles
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
