Men Quotes

Albert einstein - a theory can be proved by experiment but no path...
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
Epictetus
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Benjamin franklin - glass, china and reputation are easily cracked,...
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.
Allan K. Chalmers
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
Sir Winston Churchill
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Fred Allen
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr. Robert Schulle
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.
Sallust
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Roy Blount Jr.
Voltaire - animals have these advantages over man: they...
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
Gloria Allred
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
Macneile Dixon
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.
Lawrence Peter Berra
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
Unknown
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
James A. Pike
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand, jurist
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
Publilius Syrus