Quotes
Quotes about Men
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstancesâ it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
In the busy haunts of men.
Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready ;saddled and bridled to be ridden.
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.
Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.
Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
Let me give so much time to the improvement of myself that I shall have no time to criticize others.
There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money.
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
No man is too big to be kind...but many men are too little.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
