Men Quotes

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

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Thayer Shedd

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.

Henry Seely

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Eugene Edwards

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M. F. K. Fishe

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

The Talmud

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