Men Quotes

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Samuel Butle

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Jack Benny

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

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

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly magazine be your entertainment.

Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

So many men so many questions. Quot Homines Tot Sententiae.

Terence

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley Jr.

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau, book

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwa

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

Ann Landers

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Author Unknown

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Cicero

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus