Men Quotes

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thucyclides

Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.

Francis Bacon

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Author Unknown

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William Bennett

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.

Henry David Thoreau

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Bill Cosby

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.

Malcom Forbes

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820