Men Quotes

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitle

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

George Eliot

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

William Fullbright

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John Keats

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius, nalects, IV. 11

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Thayer Shedd

Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

Study men, not historians.

Harry S Truman

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

Archibald MacLeish

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

James Goldsmith

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley