Men Quotes
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.Author Unknown
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.Henry David Thoreau
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.Michel de Montaigne
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.Cornelius Tacitus
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.Henry David Thoreau
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.Epictetus
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.Miguel de Cervantes
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.Johnson
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.Justice Anthony Kennedy
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.Theodore Roosevelt
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.Hannah More, 1775
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.Victor Hugo
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 Jr.
