Men Quotes

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C. S. Lewis, First things First

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwa

Half this game is 90 mental.

Yogi Berra

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

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

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Bette Midle

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

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Bruce Barton

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H. G. Wells

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menande

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Jane Austen, Emma

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Quincy Adams

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Harry S Truman

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Mencius, Works

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

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

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Josh Billings

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

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