Men Quotes

Aristotle, metaphysics - all men by nature desire knowledge....
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
Gerald W. Johnston
R. buckminster fuller, new yorker, jan. 8, 1966 - either war is obsolete or men are....
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
Walter Lippmann
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
California, the department store state.
Raymond Chandle
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James Fenimore Coope
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
Pope john xxiii - men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the...
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylo
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.
Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
Mark Twain
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffe
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Jesse Louis Jackson
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwate
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.
Thomas Jefferson
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
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
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Thomas Hardy
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891