Men Quotes
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.German prove
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.Robin Williams
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.Valdemar W. Setze
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.Oscar Wilde
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.William Carlos Williams
The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.Madame de Stael
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.Homer, The Odyssey
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.John Still
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.B. F. Skinne
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.Anonymous
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.Thomas Jefferson
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.Robert Maynard Hutchins
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.George Bernard Shaw
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.Gene Spafford, 1992
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.Sir Wilfred Grenfell
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.Dorothy Parke
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
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
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.Euripides