Men Quotes

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

E. M. Cioran

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.

Tom Wicke

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

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

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Napolean Hill

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Jim We

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Lord Newborough, Motto