Men Quotes

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

American Prove

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

John Fellows Akers

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

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

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

J. B. S. Haldane

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Mack R. Douglas

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Grover Thurbe

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Eugene Edwards

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe