Men Quotes

Unknown, quoted by jim horning - good judgement comes from experience. experience...
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
Sallust
Geoffrey f. albert - but what do we mean by the american revolution do...
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
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
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardne
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Young
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
All general statements are false.
Unknown, The Ultimate Law
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizne
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Johann von Goethe
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Kelle
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Gray Davis
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
Guy Finley
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitze
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Bertrand Russell
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman