Men Quotes

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

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

John Heisman

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin P. Adams

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

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

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Author Unknown

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Voltaire

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Chris Evert

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Joseph Addison

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams