Men Quotes

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

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

Edward Abbey

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

W, Willard Wirtz

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

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

Carl Jung

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

Tom Robbins

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurbe

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

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

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

The eleventh commandment - - - Thou shalt not be found out - - - Is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

J. S. Habgood

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.