Men Quotes

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.

Peter Ustinov

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Yo soy un anima infeliz, Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

James A Michener, Iberia

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Author Unknown

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

B. F. Skinne

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.

Terence

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Henry Louis Mencken

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

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

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche