Men Quotes
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Behind an able man there are always other able men.Chinese Prove
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.Jean Ke
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.Henry Adams
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.Lord Newborough, Motto
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.Eugene Kennedy
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
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
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.Stephen Stills
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Good men must be affectionate men.Samuel Richardson
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.William Shakespeare
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.Edward W. Howe
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.Bertrand Russell
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.Norman Maile
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.Jonathan Swift
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.Unknown
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
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Walter Lippman
