Men Quotes

Euripides - the wisest men follow their own direction....
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Ovid
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andr Dubus
It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
Clive - only reason can convince us of those three...
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.
Seneca
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
T. S. Eliot
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Gloria Steinem
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
Unknown
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Bull Halsey
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
I married beneath me. All women do.
Lady Nancy Asto
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadte
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
H. L. Mencken
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
Unknown
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Bertrand de Jouvenal
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
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.
Native American
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
Richard Benne
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.
Adolf Hitle
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 Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.
Natalie Clifford Barney