Men Quotes

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.

Lawrence Peter Berra

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Father Andrew SDC

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Henry Adams

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Emerich Edward Dalbert

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

La Rochefoucauld