Men Quotes

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoove

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Stephen King

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

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

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Prove

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

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

Horace

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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

Buddha

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

Unknown

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli