Men Quotes

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

Jeff Melvoin

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Mille

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Emerich Edward Dalbert

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

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, Antigone

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

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

Christopher Morley

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

Richard Royste