Men Quotes

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.

Confucius

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.

Thomas Jefferson

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsle

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

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

Horace Greeley

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

Harriet Van Horne.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

James Olive

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

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 Elde

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

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

Albert Einstein

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget