Men Quotes

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Harry S Truman

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Barry Goldwate

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexande

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

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

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Henry Louis Mencken

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

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.

Half this game is 90 mental.

Yogi Berra

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Unknown

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Gloria Steinem

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer, The Iliad

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca