Men Quotes

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Saadi

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Miguel de Cervantes

To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leopold Stein

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Demonax

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

Oscar Wilde

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Hellen Kelle

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Dame Edith Sitwell

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beeche

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St. Augustine

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003