Men Quotes
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.Elbert Hubbard
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.Chris Rock
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.Albert Einstein
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.Martin Heidegge
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.Mark Twain
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
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
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.James Harvey Robinson
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not.Robert Francis Kennedy
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.Sir Walter Scott
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
