Men Quotes
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.Confucius
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 man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.Edward R. Murrow
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.Marcel Proust
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
First mend yourself, and then mend others.Jewish Prove
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.Wernher Von Braun
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.Eric Anderson
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.Karl Kraus
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.Henry David Thoreau, book
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.Publilius Syrus
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.Walter Savage Lando
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.Cyrus H. Curtis
God creates men, but they choose each other.Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.Joseph Conrad
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.I. F. Stone
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
