Men Quotes

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

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

Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

Resentment is anger directed at others - - At what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.

Ayn Rand

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.

Michael Parenti

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

Mary Day Winn

That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.

Henry David Thoreau

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.

Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.

Venita Cravens

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

Grace Speare

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes