Men Quotes

Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Marquis de Sade

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men who have reached and passed forty - Five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Benjamin Haydon

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.

James Grover Thurbe

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

William John Bennett

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

James Madison

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

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

Frederick Langbridge

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Max Beerbohm

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers