Men Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.Thomas Jefferson
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.Anonymous
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.Albert Einstein
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.John Owen
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fulle
Gentlemen prefer bonds.Andrew Mellon
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?Dick Francis, Twice Shy
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.Mencius, Works
Success has made failures of many men.Cindy Adams
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.Norman Maile
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.John Maurice Clark
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.Willa Cathe
Because the women are watching.T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.Heinrich Heine
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.Thornton
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.Oliver Herford
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.Edmund Burke
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes
