Men Quotes
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.Laurence Pete
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.William Bennett
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.Natalie Clifford Barney
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.Alexander Pope
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.George Will
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
All men have need of the gods.Homer, The Odyssey
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.John Dewey
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.Samuel Johnson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.Thomas Jefferson
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.Hannah Moore
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.Robert Herrick
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
