Men Quotes

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Grace Slick

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

Good men must be affectionate men.

Samuel Richardson

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

Airplane

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Lord Ritchie - Calde

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz

Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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

Resentment is anger directed at others - - At what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

Geoffrey Parsons

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

Frank Herbert, Dune

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs