men quotes

• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/greatness]
• In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [america/men]
• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/rest/morning/intellect]
• The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language/willpower/men/speak]
• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/ability]
• The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men]
• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men]
• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/protection]
• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heroism/men]
• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/thing/right]
• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men]
• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [wisdom/men/wisdom/being]
• Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/love/wonder/science]
• In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. (Henry Fielding) [reality/men]
• Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. (Henry Ford) [time/money/men/more]
• In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. (Benjamin Franklin) [men/faith]
• Observe all men, thyself most. (Benjamin Franklin) [men]
• Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. (Benjamin Franklin) [content/men/men]
• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. (Betty Friedan) [society/men/housing/status]
• Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller) [men/forget]
• An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. (Thomas Fuller) [men/men]
• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. (Thomas Fuller) [men]
• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. (Thomas Fuller) [wine/more/men]
• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization -- the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [life/men/women/family]
• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [men]
• 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) [science/men/knowledge/men]
• All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. (Mahatma Gandhi) [business/men]
• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. (Mahatma Gandhi) [men]
• Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages] (Ava Gardner) [people/love/men]
• O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. (John Gay) [men]
• Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! (John Gay) [men/women]

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