Men Quotes

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Bruce Barton

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Thirty - The promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief - Case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F Scott

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lewis Lew Wallace

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Author Unknown

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

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

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl