Men Quotes

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Morgan Forste

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

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

Homer, The Odyssey

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao Tzu

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

Thirty - The promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief - Case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F Scott

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Indian Prove

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Martin Heidegge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert Anson Heinlein

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

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

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt