Men Quotes

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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Samuel palme - wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them....
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren Bennis
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Lawrence Peter Berra
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
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
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Well - Behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
Martin Luthe
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoove
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.
William Gurnall
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890