Men Quotes

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

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

Plato

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

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

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Euripides

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Thomas H. Huxley

The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle

I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln