Men Quotes

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Gloria Steinem

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Walter J. Lippmann

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napolean Hill

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Author Unknown

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

Carey Bowman

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Edward Abbey

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford, 1992

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Henry Louis Mencken

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett