Men Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.

Colley Cibbe

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.

Elbert Hubbard

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Nadia Boulange

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Anonymous

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee W. Hock, Fast Company

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

Charles Boyle

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.

William Gurnall

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Samuel Johnson

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

John Calhoun

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

Walter Scott

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.

Ayn Rand