Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
Quotes to Explore
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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My object in this chapter is solely to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.
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I like to work hard and play hard.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.
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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
