Men Quotes

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

Bill Vaughan

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Samuel Johnson

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

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

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto