Men Quotes
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.Abba Eban
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.Robert A. Heinlein
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.Lawrence Peter Berra
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.Dennis Kucinich
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.Plato
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.The Talmud
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Groucho Marx
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.Edmund Burke
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.Alexander Pope
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.Harry S Truman
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.Helen Merrell Lynd
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.John Calhoun
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 Aurelius Antoninus
