Men Quotes

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Walter Dale Langtry

Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis Carrel

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Walter J. Lippmann

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

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

Albert Einstein

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Coope

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

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

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M. F. K. Fishe

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Henry S. Hoskins

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Rothschild

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz