Men Quotes

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty - Four hours.

Monica Baldwin

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Robert Frost

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

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

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

All general statements are false.

Unknown, The Ultimate Law

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus