Men Quotes

Johann georg von zimmermann - never lose sight of this important truth, that no...
Norman douglas, south wind, 1917 - you can tell the ideals of a nation by its...
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
Gloria Steinem
Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
La Bruyere
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Boys will be boys... and so will most men.
Jean R. Langley
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Joseph addison - if men would consider not so much wherein they...
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Lynd
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
R. D. Laing
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Lord William Beveridge
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
George Fabricius
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin Franklin
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.
Edna Ferbe
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann von Goethe
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell