Men Quotes

Arnold toynbee - civilization is a movement and not a condition, a...
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Edith wharton - another unsettling element in modern art is that...
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford, 1992
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
Epictetus
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Theodor herzl - the body is a marvelous machine... a chemical...
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.
Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
T. S. Eliot
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
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No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
Thomas Troward
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Clarence Thomas
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Earl of Chesterfield
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
R. D. Laing
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
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
Wernher Von Braun
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Reginald Blyth
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Elizabeth Adamson
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Titus Livius
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S Feue
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman