Men Quotes

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Bill Cosby

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Cicero

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.

Confucius

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

William A. Ward

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.

Lord Byron

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Frederick William Robertson

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Bull Halsey

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown