Men Quotes

Margaret mead - women want mediocre men, and men are working hard...
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Thomas Jefferson
Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.
The Talmud
Ralph waldo emerson - no facts are to me sacred none are profane i...
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
William Ashley
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
Oliver Herford
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson
Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
Unknown
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch, Morals
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Reginald Blyth
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
James A. Pike
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Philip Dormer Chesterfield