Men Quotes

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

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

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Jules Verne

To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert Humphrey

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cathe

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Tillotson

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Dave Barry

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.

Saul Bellow

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley