Men Quotes
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.Helen Merrell Lynd
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jage
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.Scarface
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.Richard M. Nixon
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.John Keats
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.Ronald Reagan
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.Groucho Marx
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.George Gordon Byron
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.William Bennett
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.Author Unknown
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.William Shakespeare
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.Junius
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.Bertrand Russell
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.Robert Cecil
Great men are not always idiots.Karen Elizabeth Gordon
