Men Quotes
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
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
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.Rue McClanahan
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Ghandi
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.Mack R. Douglas
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.Simone Weil
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.Saul Bellow
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
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.Allan Goldfein
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.Karl Kraus
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.Gloria Steinem
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.C. S. Lewis, First things First
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.Jerome P. Fleishman
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.Niccolo Machiavelli
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
