Men Quotes
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.Pliny the Elde
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.Michael Parenti
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.R. D. Lang
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
Know the right moment.Pittacus, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.John Blasik
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca, Epistles
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.Sylvia Plath
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.Frank Zappa
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - In which case all comment is superfluous - Or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.Miguel de Unamuno
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.Plato
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.Rosanne Ba
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.Jeff Melvoin
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.George Eliot
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.Unknown
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".
