Men Quotes

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Elizabeth Taylo

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Theodore Roosevelt

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor - Edge of danger and must be fought for...

Thornton Wilde

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz