Men Quotes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.Farnsworth Crowde
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
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.Edmund Burke
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.Erich Fromm
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.Elsa Schiaparelli
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.Henry David Thoreau
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.Gloria Steinem
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.Barbara DeAngelis
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
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
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 government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.Milton Friedman
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.Charles William Stubbs
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.Stephen Jay Gould
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
