Men Quotes
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.Bernd Breche
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.George Santayana
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.Taylo
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke
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
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
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 know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.Albert Einstein
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.Alan Holbrook
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.Richard Milhous Nixon
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.John Milton
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
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
Study men, not historians.Harry S Truman
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.H. L. Mencken
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.Srully D. Blotnick
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
