Men Quotes

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.

Marguerite de Valois

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Samuel Palme

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.

Jim We

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Peterson, football coach

Great men are not always idiots.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Author Unknown

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Greek prove

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003