Men Quotes
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.Helena Rubenstein
A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.Jane Wagne
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.Robert Green Ingersoll
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.Jerry Coleman
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.John Calvin
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.John Still
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.Robert Collie
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Behind an able man there are always other able men.Chinese Prove
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.Plato
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.George Burns
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
