Men Quotes
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.James Whitcomb Riley
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.Conan Doyle
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.Thomas Paine
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.Norman Thomas
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.Margaret Fulle
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.Marie Beyon Ray
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.Albert Einstein
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.Robert Green Ingersoll
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.Kim Hubbard
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.Thomas Jefferson
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.Marie Beyon Ray
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.Montesquieu
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.Alice Walke
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.Norbert Wiene
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
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
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.Rebecca West
