Men Quotes
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.Alexander Graham Bell
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.William Shakespeare
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.Carey Bowman
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
The less government we have the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.Edward Dahlberg
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - - No less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.Hasidic Saying
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.Joseph Addison
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.William Penn
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.Sallust
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.A. A. Hodge
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.Kathe Kollwitz
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.Robert Copeland
I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.Rudyard Kipling
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.Sir John A. MacDonald
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.May Sarton
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.Antonio Gramsci
The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.John S. Coleman
