Men Quotes

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.

Oliver Herford

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

Tiger Woods

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Joe Schwartz

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Jeseph Joubert

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Woodrow Wilson

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Kahlil Gibran

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth... lust. When he is strong... quarrelsomeness. When he is old... covetousness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890