Men Quotes

Tacitus - reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader....
C. c. colton - we ought not be over anxious to encourage...
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo DaVinci
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
John steinbeck, the grapes of wrath (1939) - man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic...
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.
Solon
Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.
Lord Byron
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
Aeschylus
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Booth Luce
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
John 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
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
Unknown
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
Samuel Palme
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.
Henry David Thoreau
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.
Alan Moore, Birth Caul
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Srully D. Blotnick
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
Henry David Thoreau
Mental toughness is essential to success.
Vince Lombardi
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
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
After enlightenment, the laundry.
Josh Billings
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
John Blasik
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison