Men Quotes
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.Marya Mannes
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.Robert F. Bennett
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.Publilius Syrus
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.William F. Claire
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.Unknown
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
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
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.Nikos Kazantzakis
Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.George Burns
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Confessed faults are half mended.Scottish Prove
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.Napolean Hill
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.Henry David Thoreau
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.Dan Quayle
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.James Boswell
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
