Men Quotes

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

Grace Speare

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Kahlil Gibran

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Horace

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Thomas H. Huxley

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.

George Burns

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

Francis Bacon

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation.

Bhagavad Gita

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams