Men Quotes

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Thomas Huxley

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwa

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus

Fun has a sacred dimension.

Adriana Diaz

Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Samuel Johnson

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.

Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

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

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.

George Burns

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson