Men Quotes

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexande

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Saint Bernard

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

Grace Speare

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

Half this game is 90 mental.

Yogi Berra

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Grace Slick

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lord Chesterfield

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I Ching

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

Eduard Sagalaev

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski