Men Quotes

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Gloria Steinem

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Swedish prove

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ernest Dimnet

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

John Still

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau, book

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.

Francis Bacon

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux