Men Quotes

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Prove

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Fred Allen

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

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Oscar Levant

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.

Ferdinand Foch

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Jean R. Langley

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope