Men Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William E. Channing

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

John Calhoun

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert Anson Heinlein

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen

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

George Bernard Shaw

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Hellen Kelle