Men Quotes

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

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

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

Unknown

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Julie Arabi

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine