Men Quotes - Page 1162

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.