Men Quotes

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...

Thomas Jefferson

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.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.

Bhagavad Gita

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

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

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Swedish prove

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Hippocrates, Law

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

Frank Herbert, Dune

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Julie Arabi

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Conan Doyle