Men Quotes

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.

Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.

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

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Jack Benny

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George D. Prentice

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Ellen Glasglow

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

William Adams

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

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

Mary Lou Cook

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Jim

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?

Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard