Men Quotes

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

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

George Santayana

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rita Mae Brown

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

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

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William Bennett

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

Anon.

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoove

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Bhagavad Gita

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non - Being is the greatest joy.

The Dhammapada