Men Quotes

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

Nicholas Chamfort

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Demonax

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Sun - Tzu

Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Susan Taylo

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Anonymous

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela