Men Quotes

Benjamin franklin - if a man empties his purse into his head, no man...
Thomas s. szasz - men are rewarded or punished not for what they do...
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Charles mackay - men, it has been well said, think in herds; it...
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
Dennis Kucinich
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegge
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.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer, The Odyssey
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Lynd
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter Drucke
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Mark Beltaire
Resentment is anger directed at others - - At what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
Stuart Seaton
Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.
Lord Byron
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Bruce Lee
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
Jonathan Berry
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Prince Otto
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
Lord Byron
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.
H. E. Martz
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare