Men Quotes

Thomas jefferson - our friendships are precious, not only in the...
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adle
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
Samuel butle - men should not try to overstrain their goodness...
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurbe
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
George Bernard Shaw
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
Hannah Moore
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Alexander Pope
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.
Paulson Frenckne
Yo soy un anima infeliz, Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.
James A Michener, Iberia
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Marya Mannes
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butle
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
Herbert Butterfield
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright