Men Quotes

Why think? Why not try the experiment?

John Hunte

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

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Rothschild

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

H. L. Wayland

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Celia Green

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

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton