Men Quotes

Franklin d. roosevelt - those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we...
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.
Jean Ke
Merry browne - the elegance of honesty needs no adornment....
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osle
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
Henry Seely
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoove
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
James Thomson
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Julius Henry Marx
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.
Jules Verne
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
Tibetan Doctrine
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
Henry Louis Mencken
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fulle
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
J. Deville
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats