Men Quotes
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth... lust. When he is strong... quarrelsomeness. When he is old... covetousness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.Joseph Conrad
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.George Bernard Shaw
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Henrik David Boh
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.George Washington
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.The Book of Joshua 6: 21
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.Saul Bellow
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.Katherine Hepburn
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Elbert Hubbard
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.Seymour Britchky
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
Regimen is superior to medicine.Voltaire
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.Christopher Darlington Morley
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.Chris Rock
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
After enlightenment, the laundry.Josh Billings
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.George Eliot
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Ghandi
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.Phillips Brooks
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.John Von Neumann
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad
