Men Quotes

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

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

Charles Darwin

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

George Bernard Shaw

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Andr Gide

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 best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A. Alvarez

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms