Men Quotes

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Bruce Lee

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty - Four hours.

Monica Baldwin

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

Stephen Neill

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero, De Legibus

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason