Men Quotes
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.Max Webe
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.William Bake
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.Mary Wollstonecraft
Good men must be affectionate men.Samuel Richardson
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.Thomas Alva Edison
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.Samuel Johnson
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.Marquis de Sade
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.A. A. Hodge
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.Lloyd Jones
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.Max Beerbohm
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.Jeff Melvoin
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.
