Men Quotes

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle

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

Harry S. Truman

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher Von Braun

Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang

America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoove

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilde

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Epictetus

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

H. L. Wayland

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

Men have become fools with their tools.

Thomas Elisha Stewart

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

J. Deville

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

John Tyndall

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare