Men Quotes - Page 931

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to become a poet. Hilbert is reported to have remarked: 'I never thought he had enough imagination to be a mathematician.'

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.