Men Quotes

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

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

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Voltaire

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Dave Barry

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Franoise Sagan

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

English Prove

Resentment is anger directed at others - - At what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

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

George Woodberry

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

It is the excitement of becoming - Always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - But always trying and always gaining...

Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

You know one thing that will really make a woman mad Just run up and kick her in the butt. P. S. This also works with men.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

M. Henry

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907