Men Quotes

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
Mohandas ghandi - non - violence does not signify that man must not...
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
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
Theodore Roosevelt
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare
William blackstone - law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of...
Alexander hamilton - in framing a government which is to be...
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Telle
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
Madame Chiang
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
I can live two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.
Tom Rose
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
John Dryden
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.
Chris Rock
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffe
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.
Natalie Clifford Barney