Men Quotes

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudne

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

Joseph Addison

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nade

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Charles Babbage

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Thomas Fulle

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Peter McWilliams

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

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

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Valdemar W. Setze