Men Quotes
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.Plato
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.Bill Vaughan
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.Fran Lebowitz
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.M Scott Peck
I am the toughest golfer mentally.Tiger Woods
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.Bella Abzug
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.Albert Einstein
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.M. Henry
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.Rudyard Kipling
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.William M. Evarts
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
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
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.Charles A. Cerami
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
