Men Quotes
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty - Four hours.Monica Baldwin
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.Arthur Gingold
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.Samuel Butle
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.Scott Adams
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.Thomas Jefferson
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
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.George Will
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.Harold Walke
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.Henry David Thoreau
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
All my possessions for a moment of time.Elizabeth I
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.Cesare Lombroso
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.Tanielle Naus
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.Louis D. Brandeis
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.Unknown
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.Ron Dart
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.Heraclitus
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.Peter McWilliams
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
