Men Quotes

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Voltaire

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Joe Schwartz

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Thomas Wolfe

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Thomas Troward

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Hannah Moore

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Chester Bowles

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Marcel Proust

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Home

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.

Charles De Gaulle

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche