Men Quotes

Joseph addison - to be exempt from the passions with which others...
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
John f. kennedy,
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.
Dana Hatch
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
The Talmud
John f. kennedy, amherst college, oct 26, 1963 - source jfk library, boston, mass. - the men who create power make an indispensable...
Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.
Leo Rosten
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurbe
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
M. Henry
Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
Joseph Weizenbaum
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoove
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
Henry Ward Beeche
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bern Williams
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
John Steinbeck
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X Cringely
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
Omar Khayym
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...
Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
William Lippmann
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
Indian Prove
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold