Quotes
Quotes about Men
All my possessions for a moment of time.
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
Beautiful. (in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?âDavid Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.âA Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).
You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training.âResponse to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall presume to prophesy their date, Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate? - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.]
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.
For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble, Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
