Men Quotes
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.Clement Stone
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.Heraclitus
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.H. L. Mencken
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.George Bernard Shaw
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.Sallust
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.Sir Walter Scott
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.Henry David Thoreau
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - In which case all comment is superfluous - Or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.Miguel de Unamuno
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.Gene Fowle
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.Peter Ustinov
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.Clare Booth Luce
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Sir Winston Churchill
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.John Steinbeck
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
