Men Quotes
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
By the work one knows the workmen.Jean De La Fontaine
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.Shana Alexande
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.Norman O. Brown
So many men so many questions.Terence
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.Publilius Syrus
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Regimen is superior to medicine.Voltaire
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.G. Campbell Morgan
True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.Richard Nixon
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.William Shakespeare
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.Louis D. Brandeis
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.Sybil Marshall
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.James Whitcomb Riley
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.William Thayer Shedd
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Francis Kennedy
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.Charles M. Schwa
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A Libertarian Movement slogan.Robert A. Heinlein
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll