Men Quotes

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Jerry Coleman

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spence

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Greek Prove

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

Walter Scott

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

Francis Bacon

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

H. L. Wayland

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.