Men Quotes

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Sue Grafton

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George D. Prentice

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

William A. Ward

America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoove

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.

Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Marton

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

G. C. Lichtenberg