Men Quotes

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. On appointing 10 women to top government positions.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsle

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

N. B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

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

Benjamin Franklin

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Hippocrates, Law

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield