Men Quotes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.Young
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.Bhagavad Gita
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.Sir Walter Raleigh
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.John Milton
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.Rebecca West
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.James Goldsmith
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.Edgar Watson Howe
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.Thomas H. Huxley
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.Terry Pratchett, Eric
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.Samuel Smiles
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
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
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
