Men Quotes - Page 1105

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

Men are born, and then they're formed.