Men Quotes

Henry commage - if our democracy is to flourish, it must have...
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Edmund burke - all that is necessary for the forces of evil to...
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes
The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.
Ernest Fremont Title
Men generally believe what they wish.
Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Yasutani Roshi
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Victor Hugo
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Edward Dahlberg
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.
Terence
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
John Von Neumann
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Unknown
For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.
William Shakespeare
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
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
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Thomas Carlyle
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
George W. Foote
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
Giosu, Borsi
The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley