Men Quotes
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.Colley Cibbe
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.Home
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world.Idi Amin
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.Lloyd Jones
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.Lyndon B. Johnson
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.Gene Fowle
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.Plato
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.James F. Byrnes
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.Eric Hoffe
Live a life as a monument to your soul.Ayn Rand
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.Alexander Tyle
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.Gene Fowle
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.La Bruyere
Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.Lauren Bacall
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.Peter Ustinov
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.Cicero
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
