Men Quotes

You know one thing that will really make a woman mad Just run up and kick her in the butt. P. S. This also works with men.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U. S. vs Cruikshan

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

Know the right moment.

Pittacus, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Anonymous

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

Men, in general, are but great children.

Napoleon

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".

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