Men Quotes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Julius Henry Marx

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Jim Morrison

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

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

Lloyd Jones

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

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

Rita Mae Brown

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Theodore Harold White

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Eugene Edwards

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Martin Heidegge

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I Ching

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles