Men Quotes

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

Archibald MacLeish

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

You know one thing that will really make a woman mad Just run up and kick her in the butt. P. S. This also works with men.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.

Lord Byron

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

M Scott Peck

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato