Men Quotes
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If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
Maria Montessori
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Desiderius Erasmus
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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.'
Ayn Rand
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A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
Napoleon Hill
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
V. S. Naipaul
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We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!
Margaret Thatcher
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
Natalia Ginzburg
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
Saint Basil
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
Democritus
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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson
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Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.
H. Rider Haggard
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
Primo Levi
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.
Wallace Stevens
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
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I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
Len Goodman
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Karl Barth
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A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
Stanley Baldwin
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
Ed Parker
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
Jackie Speier
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler