Men Quotes

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Seneca - live among men as if god beheld you speak to god...
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Greek Prove
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Cyril connolly - as repressed sadists are supposed to become...
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
Sue grafton - if high heels were so wonderful, men would be...
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
Charles Caleb Colton
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
Francis Bacon
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William Bennet Munro
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
Mary Lyon
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.
Woodrow Wilson
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Seneca
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
Guy Finley
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Thomas Hardy
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
George Fabricius
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Othello