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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
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The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
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A politician needs the ability to
foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards
to explain why it didn't happen.
- Winston Churchill
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
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
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
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