Men Quotes

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

George Fabricius

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Fred Allen

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William E. Channing

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis Carrel

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

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

Samuel Johnson

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Learned Hand

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

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.

Confucius

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

Henry Commage

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

Carey Bowman