Men Quotes

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.

Colley Cibbe

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fulle

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

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

Charles Kingsley

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Unknown

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitle

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Demonax

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.

Charles De Gaulle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible - That nothing is too good to be true.

Kobi Yamoda

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

Stuart Seaton

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

John Still

Thirty - The promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief - Case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F Scott

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Prove