Men Quotes

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

I married beneath me - All women do.

Nancy Asto

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Henry S. Hoskins

To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Grover Thurbe

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

MacKenzie King

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...

Aristophanes

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Eckhart Tolle

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Epictetus

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Home

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle, 09/88

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Tillotson

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams