Men Quotes

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

MacKenzie King

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Blasik

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.

Robert J. Collie

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Valdemar W. Setze

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)