Men Quotes

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucke

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

Thomas Arnold

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cathe

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsle

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Marquis de Sade

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman