Men Quotes
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.Otto Kleppne
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.Jules Verne
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.Bill Cosby
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.Clarence Thomas
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.Stephen Stills
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Men are what their mothers made them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.C. C. Colton
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.George Bernard Shaw
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
It is the excitement of becoming - Always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - But always trying and always gaining...Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Pope John XXIII
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.Sacha Guitry
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.Hellen Kelle
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.Solon
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
Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.Montesquieu
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.Aldous Huxley
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.Joyce Strange
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.George Withe
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.Lawrence Peter Berra
