Men Quotes

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

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".

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Ellen Glasglow

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.

Katherine Hepburn

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Stephen King

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parke

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Kahlil Gibran

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

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

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Chamfort

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Allan Goldfein

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus