Men Quotes

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Thomas Fulle

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas

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

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer, The Iliad

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

Harriet Van Horne.

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.

William Gurnall

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley