Men Quotes
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.Edward R. Murrow
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
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.Dorothy Parke
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.Orson Scott Card
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Walter Lippman
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.Michael Monahan
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.H. G. Wells
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.Abba Eban
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.Walter Savage Lando
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert Spence
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.Heinrich Heine
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.Henry James
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.Benjamin Cohen
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.William Penn
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.Walter Scott
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.Martin Luther King Jr.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.German prove
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.Unknown
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid