Men Quotes

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Ayn Rand, Anthem

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Julie Arabi

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.

Collen McCullough

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

So many men so many questions.

Terence

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Helle