Men Quotes

John quincy adams - all men profess honesty as long as they can. to...
Franklin delano roosevelt - get action. seize the moment. man was never...
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lord chesterfield - know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and...
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
Sir John A. MacDonald
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beeche
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Russell R. McIntyre
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
Jeff Melvoin
Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
M. Scott Peck
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?
Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
Charles Dickens
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Thomas H. Huxley
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander Pope
Let the punishment match the offense.
Cicero, De Legibus
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert Chesterton
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
Henry Seely
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
John Christian Bovee
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
American Prove
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James