Men Quotes

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Chinese Prove

The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

Henry Louis Mencken

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lewis Lew Wallace

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.

Darrin Bell

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Anon.

Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Know the right moment.

Pittacus, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Reinhold Niebuh

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Grover Thurbe

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide