Men Quotes
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.Katharine Hepburn
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.Thomas Wolfe
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.Katherine Hepburn
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.Albert Einstein
Live a life as a monument to your soul.Ayn Rand
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.Author Unknown
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?Nicolas Martin
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.Benjamin Franklin
Comments are free but facts are sacred.Charles Prestwich Scott
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave
Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.MacKenzie King
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.Bertrand Russell
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
