Men Quotes

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles

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

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

Plato

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwa

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

Unknown

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero, De Legibus

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayym

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy