Men Quotes
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.Helen Rowland
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.Henry Louis Mencken
A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.George Eliot
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.John 1335 Bible
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.Arthur Schopenhaue
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.Francis Bacon
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.Oscar Levant
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Mille
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
When it is darkest, men see the stars.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
When the candles are out all women are fair.Plutarch, Morals
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead
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
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.Thomas Wolfe
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, Julius Caesa
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.Henry Fielding
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.Alexander Pope
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.Sir Francis Bacon
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Non - Violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.Mohandas Ghandi
