Men Quotes

The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Sophocles, Antigone

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.

Bhagavad Gita

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S. Truman

Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Samuel Johnson

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Indian Prove

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

Senator William Grayson

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

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

Walter Benjamin

Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

George Steine

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they? re ended.

Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Peterson, football coach