Men Quotes

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Franoise Sagan

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

John Blasik

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

Robert Copeland

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Kahlil Gibran

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

David Hume

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Margaret Mead

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

Unknown Russian

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Anonymous

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Author Unknown