Men Quotes
I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Great men are not always idiots.Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.Michel de Montaigne
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.Aristotle, Politics
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.Georges Rouault
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.Clifton Fadiman
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Ghandi
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.Michael Johnson
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.William Shakespeare
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
Study men, not historians.Harry S Truman
Judgement, not passion should prevail.Epicharmus
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.Unknown
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.Hilaire Belloc
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
Men are what their mothers made them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.Adolf Hitle
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
N. B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.Mahatma Gandhi
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
