Men Quotes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.Eleanor Hamilton
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.Eug? ne Delacroix
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.George Bernard Shaw
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.Samuel Johnson
There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.Charles Caleb Colton
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.Rebecca West
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Men who never get carried away should be.Malcolm Forbes
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.Thomas Jefferson
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.Robert Copeland
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.Warren Buffett
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.Author Unknown
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.W. R. Inge
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.Georges Rouault
