Men Quotes

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

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

Jules Renard

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

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

George Bernard Shaw

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Jerry Coleman

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

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

Kahlil Gibran

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao Tzu

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

Thomas Jefferson

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.

Jim We

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Helle

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen