Men Quotes
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.Howard Thurman
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.Ovid
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.Marya Mannes
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.Charles Caleb Colton
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.Valdemar W. Setze
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Mille
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Gentlemen prefer bonds.Andrew Mellon
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.Miguel de Cervantes
N. B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.Mahatma Gandhi
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.Merry Browne
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.Henry Adams
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Julius Henry Marx
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor - Edge of danger and must be fought for...Thornton Wilde
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
