Men Quotes

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

It is the excitement of becoming - Always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - But always trying and always gaining...

Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Johnson

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius, nalects, IV. 11

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Thomas Fulle

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.

Natalie Clifford Barney

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.

Henry David Thoreau

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

Great men are not always wise.

Biblical Prove