Men Quotes
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.James Thurbe
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.Edward Abbey
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.Booth Tarkington
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.Anonymous
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.Confucius
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.Sir Francis Bacon
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.John Fellows Akers
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
The credit Union movement.. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U. S.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.Thomas Jefferson
Men willingly believe what they wish.Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.T. H. White
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.Marie Curie
