Men Quotes
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi".
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.Henry S. Hoskins
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.Anna Quindlen
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.Thomas Jefferson
The body is a sacred garment.Martha Graham
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.Charles de Gaulle
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.Jules Renard
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Sir Winston Churchill
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.Michael Parenti
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.Shana Alexande
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.Lord Byron
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.Plato
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.Ann Landers
The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.Franklin P. Adams
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.Seneca
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.James Boswell
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.Colley Cibbe
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.Harry S Truman
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Greek Prove
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.H. L. Mencken
