Men Quotes

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Horace

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.

Ayn Rand

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Marcel Proust

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Pliny the Elde

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurbe

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".

Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

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

Bhagavad Gita

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

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

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Daisy Bates

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.

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