Men Quotes

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Margaret Mead

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Paul Goodman

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

So long as there are men there will be wars.

Albert Einstein

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

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

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Chamfort

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois