Men Quotes

Oliver wendell holmes jr. - a new and valid idea is worth more than a...
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Alan Marshall Beck
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Erich fromm - there is hardly any activity, any enterprise,...
Georges rouault - anyone can revolt. it is more difficult silently...
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kim Hubbard
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
E. M. Cioran
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
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Sivanada
The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.
Madame de Stael
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
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
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Conan Doyle
Why think? Why not try the experiment?
John Hunte
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.
Richard Royste
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
Samuel Johnson
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Clarence Thomas
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle, unknown
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.
Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
Sue Grafton
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
Marcel Proust
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Kahlil Gibran
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe
Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.
Sybil Adelman
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
Bette Midle