Men Quotes

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Peter Ustinov

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Norbert Wiene

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmond Burke

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.

William E. Channing

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Thomas Wolfe

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Vince Lombardi

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley