Men Quotes
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.Oscar Wilde
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
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.Unknown
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.Anthony Burgess
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David Thoreau
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.Jacques Bossuet
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
You know one thing that will really make a woman mad Just run up and kick her in the butt. P. S. This also works with men.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.C. S. Lewis, First things First
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
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
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas Jefferson
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.Alcaeus
