Men Quotes

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Jerry Coleman

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Anonymous

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Taylor Benson

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Joseph Addison

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

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 and where there is sadness, joy.

Unknown

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson