Men Quotes

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Grover Thurbe

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

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

Homer, The Odyssey

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Andr Dubus

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppne

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

John Fellows Akers

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Eugene Edwards

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.

Farnsworth Crowde

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

Publilius Syrus

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walke

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Lando

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques Bossuet

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

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

William Shakespeare

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin