Men Quotes

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

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

Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

William Ashley

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Mata Hari

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.

Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

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

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Bertrand Russell

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Learned Hand

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffe

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

B. F. Skinne

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Thomas H. Huxley

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Francis Bacon

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle