Men Quotes
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.Charles Baudelaire
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
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.Euripides, Aegeus
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.Fred Allen
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.William E. Channing
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.Johann von Goethe
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.William Allen White
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.George Carlin
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.Thomas Paine
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.Walter Benjamin
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.John Burroughs
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippmann
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.Publilius Syrus
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.Whitney Moore, Jr.
