Men Quotes

Oscar wilde - romance should never begin with sentiment. it...
Robert x. cringely, infoworld magazine - if the automobile had followed the same...
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Visions of Gregorian Chants
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
Anon.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
James thurbe - human dignity has gleamed only now and then and...
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Edmund Burke
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Napolean Hill
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
German prove
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato, The Republic
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
Learned Hand
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.
Alfred North Whitehead
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 more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
La Bruyere
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
M. R. Vincent
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.
Theodore Harold White
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James R. Lowell
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
Phaedrus
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
George Washington
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John Calhoun