Men Quotes
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.Harvey Mindess
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.Archibald Alexande
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
All men think all men are mortal but themselves.Edward Young
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.Arthur Gingold
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.C. S. Lewis
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.William Orville Douglas
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.Charles de Gaulle
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Evil draws men together.Aristotle, Rhetoric
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.Natalie Clifford Barney
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.John Christian Bovee
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
