Men Quotes

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.
Harry S. Truman
Elbert hubbard - men are rich only as they give. he who gives...
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver wendell holmes jr. - nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary...
Ralph waldo emerson - the measure of a master is his success in...
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus
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
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu
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
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commage
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire Belloc
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
James A. Pike
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy
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
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
William E. Channing