Men Quotes

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

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Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

Nicholas Chamfort

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Sophocles

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Indian Prove

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilde

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Hellen Kelle

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

Author Unknown

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.

The Talmud