Men Quotes
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.Katharine Hepburn
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.Confucius, nalects, IV. 11
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.Coco Chanel
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.Harry S Truman
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.Homer, The Iliad
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.William Hazlitt
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.Greek Prove
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.German prove
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.Alcaeus
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fulle
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.Fran Lebowitz
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.John Johnson
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.Stuart Seaton
