Men Quotes

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

Tibetan Doctrine

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parke

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

B. F. Skinne

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.

Thomas Jefferson

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

Unknown

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lewis Lew Wallace

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. Inge

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Nadia Boulange

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.

James Grover Thurbe

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana