Men Quotes

Horace - in the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions...
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
South
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
John Weiss
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Titus Livius
Clarence darrow - i do not pretend to know where many ignorant men...
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.
The Talmud
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer, The Odyssey
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Tillotson
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
Thucyclides
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Sivanada
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
Charles Chincholles
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
Samuel Johnson
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
Virgil
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bronte
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
Lorne Bloch
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis