Men Quotes
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.William Penn
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.Chester Bowles
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.Author Unknown
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.Henry Mille
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.Douglas Adams
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.A. Alvarez
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
Either war is obsolete or men are.R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.Eliel Saarinen
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.Michael Johnson
Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not.Robert Francis Kennedy
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.T. H. White
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.Margaret Fulle
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.Marquis de Sade
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.Henry David Thoreau
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.
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
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.James Goldsmith
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.Jorge Luis Borges
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
