Men Quotes

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

Bill Vaughan

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Charles Chincholles

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King J

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Taylo

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

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]

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parke

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan

Great men are not always idiots.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana