Men Quotes - Page 383

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

For man is man and master of his fate.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.