Men Quotes

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

John Christian Bovee

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Robert Frost

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fulle

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.

Charles De Gaulle

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs