Men Quotes

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

C. S. Lewis

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Overlung

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.

Ernest Fremont Title

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Charlie Parke

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

Henry David Thoreau

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich