Men Quotes

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau, book

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Kerrigan

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

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Epictetus

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.

Colley Cibbe

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

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

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman