Men Quotes
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.Edward Telle
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.Leo Tolstoy
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.Ernest Dimnet
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
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
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.Anthony Burgess
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.Unknown
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.G. C. Lichtenberg
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.Hellen Kelle
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.W, Willard Wirtz
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles De Gaulle
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.Joseph Addison
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.William Rotsle
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.William Shakespeare
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.South
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.Cicero
Never confuse movement with action.Ernest Hemingway
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.Eric Anderson
