Men Quotes

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

Charles Boyle

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Kerrigan

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

The eleventh commandment - - - Thou shalt not be found out - - - Is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended.

Colley Cibbe

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly magazine be your entertainment.

Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Prove

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Father Andrew SDC

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Author Unknown

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagorus

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson