Men Quotes

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Why think? Why not try the experiment?

John Hunte

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Reinhold Niebuh

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Lando

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many.

Sybil Adelman

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara DeAngelis

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.

Ferdinand Foch

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

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, Mansfield Park

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Julie Arabi

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield