Men Quotes

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Gloria Steinem

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osle

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford, 1992

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

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

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurbe

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Bette Midle

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John Keats

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James F. Byrnes

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

Paris Hilton

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. Inge

Why think? Why not try the experiment?

John Hunte

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick