Men Quotes

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

George Will

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Walter Bagehot

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.

Terence

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Hannah Moore

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

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

Wilfred Sheed

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Dick Gregory

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm