Men Quotes

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

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

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thucyclides

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

Woodrow Wilson

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Bruce Barton

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Vince Lombardi

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

John Herro