Men Quotes
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.Kathleen Norris
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.Gelett Burgess
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.Thomas S. Szasz
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.Hippocrates, Law
Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.Montesquieu
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.William Bull Halsey
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.Frederick William Robertson
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
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
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they? re ended.Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.Dana Hatch
A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.Jane Wagne
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles De Gaulle
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
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
