Men Quotes
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.Charles Boyle
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.Franoise Sagan
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.Suzanne Necke
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.Henry Ward Beeche
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.Homer, The Iliad
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.C. S. Lewis
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.Hubert Humphrey
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.Henrik Ibsen
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.Darrin Bell
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.Lawrence Peter Berra
Now is the time for all good men to come to.Walt Kelly
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.Paul Tillich, From a lecture
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.Anon.
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.Benjamin Franklin
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.George Bernard Shaw
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.Aristotle, Politics
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.Hiram Powers
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.Unknown Russian
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.Alan Holbrook
