Men Quotes

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Voltaire

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

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

John S. Coleman

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace, Odes

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Publilius Syrus

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Richard Bach

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

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

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.

William E. Channing

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie