Men Quotes

Nathaniel hawthorne - a bodily disease which we look upon as whole and...
Pliny the elder, natural history - in comparing various authors with one another, i...
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Michel de Montaigne
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Ignazio silone - on a group of theories one can found a school;...
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.
Paul De Gondi
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
William Fullbright
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
J. S. Bryan
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Shinn
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Author Unknown
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
Unknown
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere