Men Quotes

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Prove

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

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

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle, Rhetoric

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

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

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

Thomas Arnold

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Margaret Mead

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn