Men Quotes

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Joseph Addison

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles William Stubbs

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

J. Deville

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Jim

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudne

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Susan Taylo

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Coope

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

W, Willard Wirtz