Men Quotes

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Hannah Moore

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

English Prove

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ernest Dimnet

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Louis Pasteu

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

David Hume

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

G. Campbell Morgan

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Hannah More, 1775

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill