Men Quotes

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Chester Bowles

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

W, Willard Wirtz

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexande

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Jesus

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

The eleventh commandment - - - Thou shalt not be found out - - - Is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson