Men Quotes
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.Marquis de Sade
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
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.Cardinal Richelieu
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.Thomas Wolfe
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.C. H. Parkhurst
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.George Bernard Shaw
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.Henry David Thoreau, book
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.Author Unknown
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.Greek Prove
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.Henry Truman
When it is darkest, men see the stars.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.Sallust
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.Srully D. Blotnick
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.Thomas Wolfe
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
