Men Quotes

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

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

Victor Hugo

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

G. Campbell Morgan

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

William M. Evarts

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare

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

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Warren Bennis

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman