Men Quotes

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Laurence Pete

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

The greatest penalty of evildoing - Namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

Joseph Conrad

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Coope

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoove

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! said after capture of Saddam.

George W. Bush, BBC/CNN

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King J

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

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

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero