Men Quotes

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.

Richard Milhous Nixon

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Chester Bowles

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Alexander Tyle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Unknown

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

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

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike