Men Quotes
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.Henry Louis Mencken
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.Benjamin Franklin
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.Hannah More, 1775
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
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
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
The government is us we are the government, you and I.Theodore Roosevelt
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Lord Chesterfield
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.Plato
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.James Reston
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare
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 very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.Arthur Schopenhaue
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.Edward Abbey
So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.Terence
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.Publilius Syrus
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
