Men Quotes
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.G. K. Chesterton
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.Ernest Dimnet
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.Plato
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.George Washington
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.Victor Hugo
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.Harvey Mindess
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.Eric Mascall
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.Cicero
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.William Carlos Williams
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.Benjamin Franklin
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePatne
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.Lawrence Peter Berra
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.Bill Cosby
