Men Quotes

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William Bennett

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

The greatest penalty of evildoing - Namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Ronald Reagan

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield