Men Quotes
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.Helen Hayes
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.Sybil Adelman
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.Henry Ward Beeche
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
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
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.Napoleon Hill
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
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
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
We need men who can dream of things that never were.John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.James A. Pike
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.Katharine Hepburn
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.Samuel Palme
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.Victor Hugo
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.John Burroughs
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.Allan Goldfein
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
