Men Quotes

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

Richard Royste

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford, 1992

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.

The Talmud

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Jesus

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Epictetus

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

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

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll