Men Quotes

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

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

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

Carey Bowman

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meye

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold Toynbee

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Prove

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell