Men Quotes
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.Harold Walke
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.Mark Twain
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.Shana Alexande
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.Henry Ford
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
God creates men, but they choose each other.Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.Author Unknown
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.Unknown
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.Gray Davis
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
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.Lauren Bacall
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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".
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.Clarence Darrow
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.Wilson Mizne
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.James Russell Lowell
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.Alan Holbrook
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.Thomas Jefferson
I hate women because they always know where things are.James Thurbe
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.Plato
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
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
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
