Men Quotes

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

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

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Martin Luthe

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butle

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Gallup

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Voltaire

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

If worry were an effective weight - Loss program, women would be invisible.

Nancy Drew

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

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

Sallust