Men Quotes

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.

Colley Cibbe

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

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

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle