Men Quotes

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Edward Abbey

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Anonymous

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Bertrand Russell

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

W. T. Ussery

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

George Washington

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Marquis de Sade

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parke

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.

Bhagavad Gita

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo