Men Quotes

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.

Confucius, Analects, IV. 3

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.

Elbert Hubbard

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Charles de Montesquieu