Men Quotes

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Unknown

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann von Goethe

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Jules Renard

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Charles Babbage

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Allan Goldfein

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

Nicholas Murray Butle

Non - Violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Mohandas Ghandi

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

Benjamin Franklin

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Hellen Kelle

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.

George Washington

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Author Unknown

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

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

Michael Corleone

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle