Men Quotes

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

Harvey Mindess

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

Senator William Grayson

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...

Aristophanes

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Young

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Saadi

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

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

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer, The Iliad

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

John Blasik

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Bhagavad Gita

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus