Men Quotes
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
Men have become fools with their tools.Thomas Elisha Stewart
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.Hermann Hesse
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.Andre Malraux
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.Thomas S. Szasz
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
By the work one knows the workmen.Jean De La Fontaine
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.Jesus
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.Georges Rouault
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.Author Unknown
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.Edward Morgan Forste
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
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
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.Norbert Wiene
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
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
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.George Herbert
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.Miguel de Cervantes
