Men Quotes

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoove

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.

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

William A. Ward

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Elizabeth Taylo

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osle

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

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

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield