Men Quotes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.Seneca
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.Author Unknown
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.Matsuo Basho
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Women should be obscene and not heard.Groucho Marx
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.Scott Adams
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
The body is a sacred garment.Martha Graham
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.Unknown
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.Theodore Roosevelt
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
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 am the toughest golfer mentally.Tiger Woods
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Ghandi
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.Vartan Gregorian
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
