192.Quotes On Men-Part 12
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"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.." -Henry Louis Mencken-
"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.".-Henry Louis Mencken
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"The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly;they underwrite it with their lives.".-Henry Miller-
"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.".-Herbert Clark Hoover-
"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.".-Herodotus-
"Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.".-Ibn Gabirol-
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"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.".-Julie Burchill-
"What is done to children, they will do to society.".-Karl A. Menninger-
"Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.".-Klemens Von Metternich-
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.".-Leo Tolstoy-
"A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.".-Lord George Byron-
"True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.".-Lord Shaftesbury-
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"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.".-Lydia M. Child-
"War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting;whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.".-Mark Twain-
"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.".-Nelson Algren-
"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.".-Novalis-
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering;and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly ".-Ouida-
"Men are the dreams of a shadow.".-Pindar-
"Wise men talk because they have something to say;fools, because they have to say something.".-Plato-
"It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe;the key to all ages is - Imbecility;imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments;victims of gravity, custom, and fear.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Trust men and they will be true to you.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.".-Ulysses S. Grant-
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