Men Quotes

Samuel smiles - where there is a will there is a way, is an old...
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
William shakespeare - my salad days, when i was green in judgment....
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
Robert Collie
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walter savage lando - heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may...
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andr Gide
Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.
Margaret Mead
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
Bruce Lee
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Author Unknown
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
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
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.
Valerie Polakow
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Greek Prove
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.
Charles De Gaulle
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Johnson
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers