Men Quotes

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Overlung

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurbe

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

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

I married beneath me - All women do.

Nancy Asto

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Taylor Benson

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.

Author Unknown

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U. S. vs Cruikshan

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great men are not always idiots.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Greek Prove