Men Quotes
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.Michael Monahan
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.Anonymous
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles
In soft regions are born soft men.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.John Calhoun
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.George Bernard Shaw
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
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
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.Clarence Darrow
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.Katharine Hepburn
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.Joseph Conrad
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
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth... lust. When he is strong... quarrelsomeness. When he is old... covetousness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.James Boswell
