Men Quotes
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.William Thayer Shedd
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.Malcolm Muggeridge
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.Alexander Pope
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andr Gide
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.Henry David Thoreau
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
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.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
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
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.Robert Frost
Difficulties are things that show what men are.Epictetus
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.Karl Kraus
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.Swedish prove
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.Albert Einstein
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.Unknown
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.Seneca
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.Jonathan Swift
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
