Men Quotes
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.Unknown
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.Andre Gide
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.Frederick William Robertson
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.Ann Landers
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.Hubert H. Humphrey
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
Women should be obscene and not heard.Groucho Marx
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.H. G. Wells
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.Plato
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.Lyndon B. Johnson
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.Seneca
The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.Mark Siegle
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.Rudyard Kipling
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.William Westmoreland
Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.Yogi Berra
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.Collen McCullough
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
