
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
All men are children, and of one family.
The same tale sends them all to bed,
and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't advise a haircut, man.
All hairdressers are in the employment of the government.
Hairs are your aerials.
They pick up signals from the cosmos,
and transmit them directly into the brain.
This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
- the movie Withnail & I
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
As our enemies have found, we can reason like men,
so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- Thomas Jefferson
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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