Men Quotes

I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Saint Bernard

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

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

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

Author Unknown

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - No ideals.

Golda Mei

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Joseph Bonaparte

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Helen Hayes

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.

Katherine Hepburn

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.

Sybil Adelman

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003