Men Quotes
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.Ayn Rand
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.Christopher Morley
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.Walter Benjamin
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.Conan Doyle
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.Lawrence Peter Berra
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.James Whitcomb Riley
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.Edgar Watson Howe
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.Albert Camus
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.Theodor Herzl
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.Unknown
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.M Scott Peck
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
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
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
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
For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.William Shakespeare
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
We need men who can dream of things that never were.John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
