Men Quotes
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
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
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.Voltaire
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.Laurence Pete
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.John Gargin
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.Jack Youngblood
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
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
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.Thomas Wolfe
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.George W. Foote
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.Jonathan Eibeschutz
Women should be obscene and not heard.Groucho Marx
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.Katharine Hepburn
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.Malcolm Muggeridge
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
