Men Quotes
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.Richard Milhous Nixon
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.George Chapman
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.Katharine Hepburn
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.Brigid Brophy
It is the excitement of becoming - Always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - But always trying and always gaining...Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.Eliel Saarinen
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.Rod Serling
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Swett Marden
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.Charles De Gaulle
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.Florynce Kennedy
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.Theodore Roosevelt
