Men Quotes

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.

Rita Mae Brown

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Arthur Baldwin

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

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

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Daisy Bates

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elde

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley