Men Quotes

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Edward Abbey

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Eug? ne Delacroix

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George D. Prentice

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke