Men Quotes
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.Edmund Burke
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.Alexander Pope
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.John Fellows Akers
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.Ernest Hello
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.Edmund Burke
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.Charles Baudelaire
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.John Locke
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.Ronald Reagan
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.C. C. Colton
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.Rod Serling
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.Matsuo Basho
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert Spence
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Let the punishment match the offense.Cicero, De Legibus
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.Socrates
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Henrik David Boh
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.Merry Browne
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
