Men Quotes

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

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

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Men have become fools with their tools.

Thomas Elisha Stewart