Quotes
Quotes about Men
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Women do most delight in revenge.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
