Men Quotes

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurbe

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Unknown

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert

Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

James Madison

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Charles de Montesquieu

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

Walter Scott

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

E. M. Cioran