Men Quotes
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.Hubert H. Humphrey
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.Michael Johnson
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
Evil draws men together.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.Voltaire
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.Samuel Johnson
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
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
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.Author Unknown
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.Marcel Marceau
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.Henry Ward Beeche
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
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
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.Euripides
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.Edgar Watson Howe
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
