Men Quotes

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

G. Campbell Morgan

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

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.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

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

Bernd Breche

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides