Men Quotes

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

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

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Samuel Palme

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Bull Halsey

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Jean R. Langley

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

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

Fred Allen

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison