Men Quotes

John fitzgerald kennedy - the human mind is our fundamental resource....
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Yasutani Roshi
Aeschylus - for not many men, the proverb saith, can love a...
Darrin bell - all you get from a circular argument is dizzy....
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
Senator William Grayson
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.
Laura Ingalls Wilde
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurbe
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
William Carlos Williams
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence Pete
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold Toynbee
All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.
James Grover Thurbe
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowle
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
Sir Ronald A. Fishe
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
Henry Louis Mencken
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
J. S. Bach
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence Darrow
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5