Men Quotes

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

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

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Nadia Boulange

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold Toynbee

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

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

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Grover Thurbe

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Rita Mae Brown

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Horace

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson