Men Quotes

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Daisy Bates

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

John Johnson

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Rothschild

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Father Andrew SDC

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Louis D. Brandeis

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson