Men Quotes

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Henry Louis Mencken

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius, nalects, IV. 11

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Louis Pasteu

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Non - Violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Mohandas Ghandi

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy