Men Quotes
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.Sallust
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
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.Milton Friedman
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
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
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.Anna Quindlen
Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.Cesare Lombroso
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.Cardinal Richelieu
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.Edward Dahlberg
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
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
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.Charles Baudelaire
Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.Airplane
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.Phillips Brooks
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.Robert Lynd
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.Oscar Wilde
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.Peter Ustinov
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.Richard Feynman