Men Quotes

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Ayn Rand, Anthem

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.

Saul Bellow

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein