Men Quotes

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.

Lord Byron

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Stephen King

Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.

George Burns

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

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

Thomas Carlyle

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjamin Franklin

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

Colley Cibbe

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Author Unknown

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

John Herro

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

South

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

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

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Conan Doyle