Men Quotes

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

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

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

The Talmud

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Author Unknown

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham