Men Quotes

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

Harvey Mindess

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

William Carlos Williams

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Ellen Glasglow

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

George Steine

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002