Men Quotes

Sir winston leonard spenser churchill - the heights of great men reached and kept, were...
Elbert hubbard - men are punished by their sins, not for them....
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe
Mortimer adle - freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary...
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Edmund Burke
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
Philip Skelton
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
Charles Babbage
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...
Aristophanes
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitze
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl Kraus
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
M. Henry
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Henry Louis Mencken
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Sir Francis Bacon
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beyon Ray
I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.
Richard Darman
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.
Alfred Adle
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
Antonio Gramsci