Men Quotes
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee
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
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
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
True refinement seeks simplicity.Bruce Lee
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.Rebecca West
Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.Frederick Langbridge
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.Alexander Pope
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.Gloria Steinem
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.Tacitus
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)
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
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.Walter Bagehot
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.James Goldsmith
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Elbert Hubbard
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.Alexander Hamilton
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.Charles Schwa
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.Euripides, Aegeus
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.Gloria Steinem
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.George Burns
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
