Men Quotes
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.Henry Ward Beeche
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.Plato
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.Edna Ferbe
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.Reinhold Niebuh
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett
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
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.Robert Southey
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.H. G. Wells
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.Henry P. Fairchild
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.Sir Wilfred Grenfell
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.Phaedrus
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.The Talmud
