Men Quotes
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.Paul De Gondi
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert Spence
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.Robert A. Heinlein
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.Harriet Van Horne.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.Susan B. Anthony
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.Baltasar Gracian
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.Mencius, Works
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.Kurt Lewin
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.Richard Feynman
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?Peter Ustinov
The society of women is the element of good manners.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
