Men Quotes
All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken
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
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.Nicholas Murray Butle
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.Harry S Truman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.Henry David Thoreau
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
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.Frank Zappa
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
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.Elbert Hubbard
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.Edna Ferbe
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.Warren Buffett
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.Saul Bellow
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.Richard M. Nixon
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.George Bernard Shaw
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.C. C. Colton
