Men Quotes - Page 984

According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.

To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.