Men Quotes

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.

Henry David Thoreau

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

Sir John A. MacDonald

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not.

Robert Francis Kennedy

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

Little said is soonest mended.

Miguel de Cervantes

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

Bill Vaughan

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

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

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes