Men Quotes

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Indian Prove

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Jules Verne

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.

Adolf Hitle

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

John Herro

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban