Men Quotes

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

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Saadi

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.

Darrin Bell

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

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

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Seneca

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A. Alvarez

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

George Washington

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

Senator William Grayson

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nade