Men Quotes

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Lord Ritchie - Calde

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Indian Prove

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher Von Braun

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams, Journal, 1772

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.

Arthur Gingold

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Anon.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

U. S. vs Cruikshan

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli

All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.

Venita Cravens

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History