Men Quotes

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Little said is soonest mended.

Miguel de Cervantes

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Alexander Tyle

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert

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

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.

Cathy Ladman

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napolean Hill

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

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.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

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

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett