Men Quotes

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George D. Prentice

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Author Unknown

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Eug? ne Delacroix

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feathe

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman