Men Quotes

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
Hermione Gingold
T. e. lawrence - all men dream: but not equally. those who dream...
Good men must be affectionate men.
Samuel Richardson
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bernd Breche
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Brigid Brophy
Ralph waldo emerson, journal, 1860 - the teaching of politics is that the government,...
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Chinese prove - if you are patient in one moment of anger, you...
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.
Soren Kierkegaard
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
M. R. Vincent
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Colton
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Amanda Grie
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
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
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau
A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace, Odes
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.
Jean Ke
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch, Morals
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
Home
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams, Journal, 1772
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan