Men Quotes

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjamin Franklin

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich