Men Quotes

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

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

Alan Holbrook

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace, Odes

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Charles Chincholles

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Helle

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

Epicurus

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

Alanis Morissette

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - No ideals.

Golda Mei

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle