Men Quotes
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.Daniel Webste
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.English Prove
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.John Herro
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.Richard Milhous Nixon
I can live two months on a good compliment.Mark Twain
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.Alexander Tyle
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.Walter J. Lippmann
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
Use soft words and hard arguments.English Prove
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.Anonymous
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
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
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
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
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Publilius Syrus
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.Sue Grafton
First mend yourself, and then mend others.Jewish Prove
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.Barbara DeAngelis
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
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
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
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.Richard Milhous Nixon
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.Saint Bernard
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.Plato
