Men Quotes

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Anon.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Nadia Boulange

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Mack R. Douglas

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Prove

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Peter Ustinov

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Justice Anthony Kennedy