Men Quotes
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.Jeseph Joubert
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Thomas Jefferson
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.William Allen White
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.George Bernard Shaw
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.Father Andrew SDC
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?B. F. Skinne
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.John Heisman
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.Charles M. Schwa
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.Carl Sandburg
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.Jascha Heifetz
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
