Men Quotes

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Marton

Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.

Marguerite de Valois

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Helle

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Overlung

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

Charles Boyle

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

Unknown

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Anonymous

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

Henry David Thoreau

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H. G. Wells

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Greek Prove

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.

Luis Cernada

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.

Theodore Harold White

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell