Men Quotes

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Unknown

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Anonymous

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Auguste Renoi

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U. S. vs Cruikshan

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Greek Prove

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild