Men Quotes

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

Unknown

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides, Temenidae

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques Bossuet

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Ghandi

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.

Theodor Herzl

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.

Plato

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

The eleventh commandment - - - Thou shalt not be found out - - - Is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoove

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch