Men Quotes

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher Von Braun

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurbe

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.

Alfred Adle

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

George Bernard Shaw

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

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 roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylo

Little said is soonest mended.

Miguel de Cervantes

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Thomas Huxley

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Jim Morrison

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Martin Luthe

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau