Men Quotes
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.Joseph Addison
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.Unknown
Comments are free but facts are sacred.Charles Prestwich Scott
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.Edward Abbey
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.Cesare Lombroso
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Walter Lippman
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.Henry B. Adams
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
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
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.James Olive
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Buddha
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.H. L. Mencken
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
