Men Quotes

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

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 Prince

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Anonymous

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.

Arthur Gingold

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

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

Erica Jong

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Publilius Syrus

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayym

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead