Men Quotes
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.South
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.John Locke
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.Henry Louis Mencken
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.Jane Austen
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.Norman Maile
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.Rudyard Kipling
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King J
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.Gray Davis
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.Alcaeus
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.Thomas Fulle
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.George Bernard Shaw
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.George Bernard Shaw
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.Jeanne - Marie Roland
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.Albert Einstein
