Men Quotes
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.Herbert Spence
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.Voltaire
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.Francis Bacon
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.Norman Maile
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.Oscar Wilde
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.Stephen Stills
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Groucho Marx
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.Cicero
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.John Donne
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.Andre Gide
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.George Sarton, History of Science
Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.Richard Bach
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.Plato
