Men Quotes
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.Martin Luther King Jr.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
All movements go too far.Bertrand Russell
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
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.Henry Louis Mencken
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.G. Campbell Morgan
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.William Shakspeare, Julius Cease
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.Sir Walter Raleigh
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.Dean Hawkins
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
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.Helena Rubenstein
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.Charles Chincholles
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.Paul Goodman
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.John Fellows Akers
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.Karl Marx
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.Hubert H. Humphrey
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
