Men Quotes

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

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Clarence Darrow

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Boh

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

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

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - In which case all comment is superfluous - Or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Miguel de Unamuno

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.

Ferdinand Foch

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley Jr.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Bull Halsey

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.

George Washington

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

Plato

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

John Adams

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey