Men Quotes

Lloyd dobens and clare crawford - mason, thinking about quality - if there is no worker involvement, there is no...
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
Rosanne Ba
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
C. c. colton - there is this paradox in pride - it makes some...
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
Philip Skelton
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.
Arthur Koestle
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Yasutani Roshi
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
James Olive
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Lenny Bruce
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Let the punishment match the offense.
Cicero, De Legibus
Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. Mencken
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
Robert E. Lee
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - In which case all comment is superfluous - Or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Miguel de Unamuno
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
C. J. Jung
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde