Men Quotes

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Alexander Pope

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Continual improvement is an unending journey.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.

Ron Dart

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Lando

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Bette Midle

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Cicero

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau