Men Quotes

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilde

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Rosanne Ba

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjamin Franklin

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Charles de Montesquieu

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.

Collen McCullough

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

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

Titus Livius

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

Geoffrey Parsons

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Ronald Reagan

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Anna Quindlen

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Marcel Proust

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Mencius, Works

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold