Men Quotes

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Mencius, Works

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Montesquieu

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Titus Livius

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Jules Verne

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Daisy Bates

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

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations