Men Quotes - Page 33

• Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Degrees, Certain

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.184

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• Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Believe, Possibility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.308

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• Every man paddles his own canoe.

  Frederick Marryat

  Every Man

  Settlers in Canada ch. 8 (1844)

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• Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

  Paul Valery

  Ideas, Doing Nothing, Precise

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• Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Fool, Pleasure, Dies

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• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sleep, Night, Roots

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Abuse, Age

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.74, Modern Library

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• Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, President, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin

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• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Home, Cat, Animal

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• I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Thinking, Race

  "Concerning the Jews" (1899)

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Giving

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.431

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• Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Humanity, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.267

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