Men Quotes

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Jeseph Joubert

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.

Author Unknown

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Willa Sibert Cathe

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! said after capture of Saddam.

George W. Bush, BBC/CNN

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.

Socrates

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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

Robert X Cringely

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Richard Bach

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

Henry David Thoreau

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics