Men Quotes
Study men, not historians.Harry S Truman
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.William Penn
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.Wendy Ward
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
The argument is at an end.Saint Augustine
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.Thomas Babington
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.Cyrus H. Curtis
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.Thomas Paine
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.Daniel Webste
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.Oscar Wilde
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.Plutarch, Morals
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
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
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?Benjamin Franklin
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.Lawrence Peter Berra
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.Ralph Waldo Emerson
