Men Quotes
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.Charles De Gaulle
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.Lloyd Jones
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.William Carlos Williams
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.Henry David Thoreau
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
Boys will be boys... and so will most men.Jean R. Langley
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.Charles De Gaulle
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.W. N. Taylo
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.Unknown
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.W. R. Inge
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.H. L. Mencken
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.Vartan Gregorian
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.Alexander Pope
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.Pierre Corneille
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.Bhagavad Gita
Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.Mary Day Winn
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great men are not always wise.Biblical Prove
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.Marguerite de Valois
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.Alice Walke
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.Alexander Pope
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
