Men Quotes

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch - Digging, mountain - Climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.

Edna Ferbe

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

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

Anon.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero, De Legibus

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James F. Byrnes

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Prove

N. B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

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

Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson