Men Quotes

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

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

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

I think there is a 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

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Joe Schwartz

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Eug? ne Delacroix

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.

Shakti Gawain

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Franoise Sagan