Men Quotes

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

Men who have reached and passed forty - Five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Benjamin Haydon

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

Carl Lotus Becke

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle, Rhetoric

All general statements are false.

Unknown, The Ultimate Law

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thucyclides

A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Boh

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

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley