Men Quotes - Page 853

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

Where the earth is, we are.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.