Men Quotes
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.Edmund Burke
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.Samuel Johnson
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
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
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
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.Chief Justice Earl Warren
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.Willa Cathe
All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.James Grover Thurbe
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.Arthur Schopenhaue
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.Ambrose Bierce
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.John Tyndall
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.William Hazlitt
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca, Epistles
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.Valdemar W. Setze
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
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
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.Susan B. Anthony
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
Because the women are watching.T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.Robert Maynard Hutchins
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.Steven Runciman
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.Charlotte Bronte
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.Huey Long
