Men Quotes

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

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

George D. Prentice

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Kim Hubbard

The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

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

Gail Pool

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

J. Paul Getty

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

George Fabricius

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

James Goldsmith

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Amanda Grie

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan