Men Quotes

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

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

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

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

H. L. Mencken

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parke

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.

Sybil Adelman

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

Giosu, Borsi

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

William Allen White

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Hippocrates, Law

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

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

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca