Men Quotes

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

J. Deville

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Sophocles

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoove

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Author Unknown

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell