Men Quotes

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jules Renard

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinne

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

Alice Hoffman

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

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, Temenidae

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

Publilius Syrus

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Thayer Shedd

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray