Men Quotes

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Napolean Hill

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Unknown

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

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

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Chris Evert

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

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

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Peterson, football coach

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

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

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire