Men Quotes

Herbert hoove - older men declare war, but it is the youth that...
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
Swami sivanada - if you think about disaster, you will get it....
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Whitney Moore, Jr.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kim Hubbard
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
All men think all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmond Burke
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Ellen Glasglow
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
Max Webe
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Peter S. Prescott
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.
Malcom Forbes
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
Tibetan Doctrine
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
Bernard Iddings Bell
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Booth Luce
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
Rothschild
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
Seneca
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
Saadi
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow