Men Quotes

Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

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

Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Jerry Coleman

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Unknown

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

J. S. Habgood

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beeche

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

Unknown

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Montesquieu

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao Tzu