Men Quotes

Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Sbastien - Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Samuel Palme

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

Nicholas Chamfort

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.

Albert Einstein

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.

John Owen

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.

Bhagavad Gita

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

Confessed faults are half mended.

Scottish Prove

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

Learned Hand