Men Quotes

Bob wells - for every action there is an equal and opposite...
Stuart seaton - the human brain is a most unusual instrument of...
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
Ronald reagan - government is like a baby. an alimentary canal...
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
A. Alvarez
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Clark Hoove
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King J
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.
Farnsworth Crowde
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Albert Einstein
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Nadia Boulange
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagorus
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
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
George Will
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Mark Beltaire
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.
B. A. Fajimi
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Reginald Blyth
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.