Men Quotes

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

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.

William Bake

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert Humphrey

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

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

John Locke

Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Anandabai Joshee

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Walter J. Lippmann

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Lincoln Steffens

So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.

Terence

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Saint Bernard

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson