Men Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

La Bruyere

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Chinese Prove

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Jack Benny

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Robert Frost

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Joseph Addison

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

William Allen White

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napolean Hill

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.

James Grover Thurbe

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999