Men Quotes

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

Arnold Toynbee

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.

Elbert Hubbard

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Chinese Prove

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

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

Michael Monahan

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

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

Joseph Helle

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

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

Seneca

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao - Tzu

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

Thirty - The promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief - Case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F Scott

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James F. Byrnes

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey