Men Quotes

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

Stuart Seaton

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `

Calvin Coolidge

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace, Odes

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

Anon.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walke

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.

Author Unknown

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

John Still

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

Anna Quindlen

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy