Men Quotes

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

Why think? Why not try the experiment?

John Hunte

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

Plato

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Taylor Benson

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Men, in general, are but great children.

Napoleon

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. On appointing 10 women to top government positions.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

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

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

John Von Neumann

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer, The Odyssey

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M. F. K. Fishe

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Lord Newborough, Motto

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucke

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad