Men Quotes

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.

Peter Ustinov

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.

Scott Adams

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

Harriet Van Horne.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

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 day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Ghandi

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

W. T. Ussery

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden