Men Quotes

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. On appointing 10 women to top government positions.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Jean R. Langley

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.

Socrates

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

Carl Lotus Becke

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Chris Rock

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

Non - Violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Mohandas Ghandi

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry