Men Quotes

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.
Author Unknown
Walter lippmann - men can know more than their ancestors did if...
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Michel de Montaigne
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
Plato - laws are partly formed for the sake of good men,...
Archibald alexande - men are more accountable for their motives, than...
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Lao Tzu
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
Anne Besant
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
Thomas Troward
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
Author Unknown
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dandemis
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
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
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.
Seneca
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John L. Motley
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
Eugene Kennedy
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `
Calvin Coolidge
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
Elayne Boosle
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe