Men Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

M. Henry

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffe

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitle

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare