Men Quotes

Grayson kirk - the most important function of education at any...
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.
Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org
Henry david thoreau - most men would feel insulted if it were proposed...
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
Antonio Gramsci
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
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, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Author Unknown
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.
Jean Ke
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
William M. Evarts
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Barry Duncan
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
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
H. Mumford Jones
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