Men Quotes

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)

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.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.

Henry David Thoreau

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Anonymous

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Robert A. Heinlein

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Richard Milhous Nixon

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

Airplane

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu