Men Quotes

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius, nalects, IV. 11

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Jane Austen, Emma

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

William M. Evarts

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Unknown

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

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Alvin Toffle

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Grace Slick

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

Harriet Van Horne.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare