Men Quotes

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

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

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Justice Anthony Kennedy

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Euripides

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Clarence Darrow

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M. F. K. Fishe

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.

B. A. Fajimi

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

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

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.

Ferdinand Foch