Men Quotes

The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...

Thomas Jefferson

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

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

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

George Washington

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.

John Owen

All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Frederick William Robertson

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Albert Pike

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Chinese Prove

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.

Venita Cravens

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cathe

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Blyth

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero