Men Quotes

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Kerrigan

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.

Theodore Harold White

Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Horace

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

William Ashley

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Alvin Toffle

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978