Men Quotes

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
Henry david thoreau, walden, 1854 - it is an interesting question how far men would...
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
Well behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Alan holbrook - women and cats do as they damned well please, and...
Henry david thoreau - the greatest compliment that was ever paid me was...
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Euripides
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
Wendy Ward
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Helle
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
Men, in general, are but great children.
Napoleon
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.
Thomas Jefferson
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagorus
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
I Ching