Men Quotes

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Homer, The Iliad

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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

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

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

Mary Day Winn

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

William Adams

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

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

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Franoise Sagan

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Marton

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non - Being is the greatest joy.

The Dhammapada

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucke

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee