Men Quotes

Alice hoffman - when all is said and done, the weather and love...
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
George bernard shaw - life would be tolerable but for its amusements....
Thirty - The promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief - Case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F Scott
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
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
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.
Russell G. Alexande
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.
Kay Ingram
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith
The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.
Ernest Fremont Title
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.
Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
Alan Holbrook
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - No ideals.
Golda Mei
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.
Theodore Harold White
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
Swedish prove
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Hellen Kelle
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
Robert
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
Learned Hand
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.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Colton
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
Emily Taft Douglas
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
John Johnson
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996