Men Quotes

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napolean Hill

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Clarence Darrow

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Jerry Coleman

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Bertrand Russell

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Katharine Whitehorn

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero, De Legibus

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.

Charles De Gaulle

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Walter J. Lippmann

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson