Men Quotes - Page 28

• When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  May, Forget, Ideals

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• The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

  Robert W. Service

  Bows, Knows, Happy Man

  Robert W. Service (2015). “Ballads of a Bohemian”, p.85, Read Books Ltd

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• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Wicked, Done

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

  Herman E. Daly

  Independent, Technology, Facts

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.125, Island Press

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• Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Stupid, Speaking Well

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• That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Support, Use, Want

  Replying to a politician who said 'I will support you as long as you are in the right', in Lord David Cecil 'Lord M' (1954) ch. 4

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• Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Hula, Wheels

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• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Real, Science, Technology

  1967 The New Industrial State.

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• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Believe, Damnation, Alive

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “A Season in Hell and Other Poems”, Anvil PressPoetry Limited

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• Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Flow, Worthy

  Alexander Pope (1847). “Poetical Works”, p.299

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• The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Wise, Wisdom, Law

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.23

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• If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

  Samuel Adams

  Giving Up, Mistake, Law

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

  Francis Bacon

  Liberty, Speech, Used

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”

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• Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Success, Freedom, Perfect

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• A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Memories, Greatness, Long Ago

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.171, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

  Norman Cousins

  Color, Opposites, Diversity

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Heart, Eye

  Clarence Darrow's funeral oration for John Peter Altgeld, March 14, 1902.

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• Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

  William O. Douglas

  Powerful, Ideas, Political

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Liberty, Citizens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Modern Library

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• If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.

  Marshall Field

  Atmosphere, Society, Liberty

  Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”

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• Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Liberty, Coercion

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 99, 1960.

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• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Liberty, Able, Wit

  1651 Leviathan, pt.2, ch.21.

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• The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Liberty, Followers

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