Men Quotes

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

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

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nade

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

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

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne