Men Quotes

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

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

J. Deville

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

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

Alexander Michael

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Anonymous

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

Joseph Bonaparte

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Montesquieu