Men Quotes

Ambrose redmoon - courage is not the absence of fear, but rather...
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
Henry david thoreau - i have learned this at least by my experiment...
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Colton
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin
The greatest penalty of evildoing - Namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
Jerry Coleman
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James Arthur Baldwin
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.
Dean Hawkins
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.
George Carlin
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Henry David Thoreau
Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necke
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
Walt Whitman