Men Quotes
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.Margaret Fulle
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.Cicero
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.Mata Hari
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.Saadi
There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.Homer, The Iliad
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
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.C. C. Colton
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.Wilson Mizne
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
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 Aelius Aurelius
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.Albert Einstein
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.Norman O. Brown
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.George Woodberry
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.Victor Hugo
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.Sbastien - Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
