Men Quotes
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.Hermann Hesse
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.John Calhoun
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.Robert Cecil
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.Reinhold Niebuh
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.Sam Ewig
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Dorothy Nevill
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.William Shakespeare
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.Baltasar Gracian
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.Susan Taylo
All general statements are false.Unknown, The Ultimate Law
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.Ambrose Bierce
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.Alexander Pope
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.Martin Heidegge
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.William E. Holle
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.Albert Camus
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.Alexander Pope
We do not remember days, we remember moments.Cesare Pavese
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.Edgar Watson Howe
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Home
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
