Men Quotes
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.Horace
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.Henry Adams
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.Ashely Montagu
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.Malcolm Muggeridge
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.Unknown
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925
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
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.Kim Hubbard
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.John Kenneth Galbraith
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.William Shakspeare, Julius Cease
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.Thomas S. Szasz
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.Alfred North Whitehead
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
