Men Quotes
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.Robert Frost
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.Archibald Alexande
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.Kurt Lewin
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.Sophocles
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.Marquis de Sade
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.Seneca
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.Eugene Edwards
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.Matsuo Basho
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.Rue McClanahan
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.
No nice men are good at getting taxis.Katharine Whitehorn
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
