Men Quotes

Homer, the iliad - miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment...
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.
Ayn Rand
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Yasutani Roshi
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran
Harry s truman - when you have an efficient government, you have a...
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmond Burke
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
Kathleen Norris
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig Mises
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.
The Hitopadesa
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Mencius, Works
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
Lord Byron
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C. H. Parkhurst
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C. S. Lewis, First things First
Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.
Randy J. Hinrichs
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.
Henry David Thoreau
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
James Olive
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
Dick Gregory