Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

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!'

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.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.