Men Quotes

Dietrich bonhoeffe - it is the characteristic excellence of the strong...
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
Danny ozark, manager of the phillies - half this game is 90% mental....
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.
The London Times
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Hellen Kelle
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
Geoffrey Parsons
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
James reston - a government is the only known vessel that leaks...
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.
Elbert Hubbard
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Men have become fools with their tools.
Thomas Elisha Stewart
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Lord William Beveridge
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice Hoffman
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
Dick Gregory
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.
Allan K. Chalmers
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
Anne Besant
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown
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
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch, Morals
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness