Men Quotes

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)

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams, Journal, 1772

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

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

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

Frederick Langbridge

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

Henry Ward Beeche

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Auguste Renoi

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

Doug Hall

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Anonymous

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

German prove