Men Quotes

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

David Riesman

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

Doug Hall

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

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau, book

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Madame de Stael

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.

Ernest Fremont Title

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie