Men Quotes

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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 health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

Doug Hall

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

Continual improvement is an unending journey.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Lando

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Reinhold Niebuh

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891