Men Quotes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

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

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

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".

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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

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

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Jerry Coleman

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

The Book of Joshua 6: 21

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

Geoffrey Parsons

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Celia Green

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Hannah More, 1775

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

William Shakespeare