Men Quotes

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.

Charles De Gaulle

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

M. Henry

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Sue Grafton

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Langbridge

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Seneca

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

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

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Richard Milhous Nixon

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

James Goldsmith