Men Quotes

Roy blount jr. - studying literature at harvard is like learning...
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
A. whitney griswold - could hamlet have been written by a committee, or...
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
The Book of Joshua 6: 21
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Thomas Fulle
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin
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
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Thomas Jefferson
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.
Unknown
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
Alexander Hamilton
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.
Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Barry Duncan
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Chinese Prove
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...
Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
Anna Quindlen
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Study men, not historians.
Harry S Truman
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
Charles Boyle
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein