Men Quotes
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.Michael Monahan
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.Alvin Toffle
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
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.Henry David Thoreau
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon
Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.Sybil Adelman
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.Richard M. Nixon
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.I Ching
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.John Locke
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.Author Unknown
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?Benjamin Franklin
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.Kim Hubbard
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.Tillotson
If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.Theodore Roosevelt
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.Buddha
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.Unknown
Men who never get carried away should be.Malcolm Forbes
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
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.John Quincy Adams
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.Rue McClanahan
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
