Men Quotes
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.Nelson Mandela
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.John Masefield
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.H. G. Wells
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
The more I know about men the more I like dogs.Gloria Allred
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.Author Unknown
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.Charles Simmons
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.William Orville Douglas
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.Elsa Schiaparelli
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.Anthony Burgess
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.Sallust
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.Arnold Toynbee
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
If worry were an effective weight - Loss program, women would be invisible.Nancy Drew
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
