Men Quotes

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

William M. Evarts

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Joseph Addison

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.

Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Thomas Jefferson

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

Tiger Woods

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Learned Hand

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.

The Talmud

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

William Allen White