Men Quotes

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

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

Horace, Odes

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Francis Bacon

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

William Ashley

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

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

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her - And most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince".

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

George Steine

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens