Men Quotes

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

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

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

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

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

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

George Washington

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson