Men Quotes
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.John Updike
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.Lord Newborough, Motto
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.Thomas Jefferson
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.Unknown
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.Swedish prove
Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.Yogi Berra
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?Bette Midle
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.William Hazlitt
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Helle
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.Gene Fowle
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.The Book of Joshua 6: 21
We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.Benjamin Franklin
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.Thomas Troward
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.Anna Quindlen
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
