Men Quotes

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Chris Rock

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Rothschild

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Jeseph Joubert

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Saint Jerome, Letter 48

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beeche

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world.

Idi Amin

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

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".

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

I Ching

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Unknown

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein