Men Quotes
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.Sallust
When it is darkest, men see the stars.Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.Robert Frost
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.Willis Whitney
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.Martina Navratilova
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.Ezra Loomis Pound
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.William Bennett
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.Bertrand Russell
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.George Bernard Shaw
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.Elbert Hubbard
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.Justice Anthony Kennedy
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.John Christian Bovee
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.Thomas Hardy
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.Katharine Hepburn
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.C. J. Jung
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.J. B. S. Haldane
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.William Shakespeare
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.George Will
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
