Men Quotes

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elde

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin P. Adams

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

Continual improvement is an unending journey.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?

Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.

Robert A. Heinlein

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau