Men Quotes
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
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
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.Herbert Hoove
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.John Dewey
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.Author Unknown
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.Lord Byron
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.James Madison
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.Edward Dahlberg
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Now is the time for all good men to come to.Walt Kelly
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.Yogi Berra
Some men are born posthumously.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.Heinrich Heine
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.Anon.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.Bruce Barton
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.William Ashley
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
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
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.W. R. Inge
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.John Keats
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.Seneca
