Men Quotes

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beeche

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...

Antoine Laurent Lavoisie

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Swedish prove

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.

Shakti Gawain

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Unknown

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Roosevelt

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

John S. Coleman

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke