Men Quotes

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Tillotson

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

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

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

Nicholas Chamfort

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parke

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.

Hugh Elliott

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.

Richard Milhous Nixon

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Celia Green

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee W. Hock, Fast Company

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams