Men Quotes

James reston - a government is the only known vessel that leaks...
Walter lippmann - when men are brought face to face with their...
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kim Hubbard
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse
Men, in general, are but great children.
Napoleon
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Peter drucke - so much of what we call management consists in...
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.
Socrates
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteu
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Tyle
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.
Ayn Rand, Anthem
All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
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
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George Gallup
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinne
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
William Fullbright
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.
W. M. L. Jay
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.
I Ching
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge