Men Quotes

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Benjamin Cohen

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.

Wendy Ward

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

Carey Bowman

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

Mary Day Winn

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

Women are the glue that hold our day - To - Day world together.

Anna Quindlen

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

Study men, not historians.

Harry S Truman

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Author Unknown

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery