Men Quotes

Edgar watson howe - half the time men think they are talking...
As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
Jeff Melvoin
Johnson - judgment is forced upon us by experience....
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffle
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer, The Odyssey
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
Terence, adelphoe - i bid him look into the lives of men as though...
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.
Adolf Hitle
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William Orville Douglas
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Brigid Brophy
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...
Learned Hand
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.
John Fellows Akers
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King J
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
Paul De Gondi
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Horace Greeley
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Roy Blount Jr.
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.
James Barrett Scotty Reston