Men Quotes

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Bill Cosby

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.

B. A. Fajimi

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert South

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Cicero

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

Doug Hall

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

Buddha

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

Lewis Lew Wallace

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

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

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

Lawrence Peter Berra

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman