Men Quotes

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle, 09/88

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.

Albert Einstein

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Boh

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Auguste Renoi

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Anandabai Joshee

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero