Men Quotes
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles
The bravest thing that men do is love women.Mort Sahl
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.William Shakespeare
Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.Kay Ingram
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.Dan Quayle
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.John Fellows Akers
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.Francis Bacon
Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.George Burns
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.Kathleen Norris
God creates men, but they choose each other.Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.Unknown
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.Walter Savage Lando
The less government we have the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fulle
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
