Men Quotes
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.Frederick William Robertson
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
So many men so many questions.Terence
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.Rabindranath Tagore
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.Harry S Truman
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.William Shakespeare
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.Wendy Ward
Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.James Harvey Robinson
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.Lincoln Steffens
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
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
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.George W. Foote
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.Nikos Kazantzakis
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
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
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.Gerald R. Ford
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
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
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.Guy Finley
