Men Quotes

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

Half this game is 90 mental.

Yogi Berra

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Kim Hubbard

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Helen Hayes

Fun has a sacred dimension.

Adriana Diaz

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

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

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Elsa Schiaparelli

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Prove

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Norbert Wiene

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Robert Frost

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoove

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson