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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 17
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi (c. 1210 - 1290, Persian poet)
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Marquis De Sade (1740-1814, French author)
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
Marquis De Sade (1740-1814, French author)
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
Sadi
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995, American virologist who discovered the first vaccine against poliomyelitis)
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
George Sand (1804-1876, French novelist)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967, American poet)
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966, American social reformer and founder of the birth control movement)
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Ben Sapir
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work or love his job.
David Sarnoff (1891-1971, Belarus-born American entrepreneur)
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
May Sarton (1912-1995, American poet, novelist)
Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980, French writer, philosopher)
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Man is that he might have joy.
Joseph F. Smith
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966, American author)
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
George Savile
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Zen Saying
Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.
Erwin H. Schell
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of "Munich" may exceed the original error of 1938.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-, American historian)
In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.
Jay Schmiedeskamp
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.
Olive Schreiner
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest -- blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says -- Work; and to us it says -- Seem! To you it says -- As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says -- Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.
Olive Schreiner
Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
There will never be another now. I will make the most of today. There will never be another me. I will make the most of myself.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Schultz
I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is working.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
William F. Scolavino
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
John Sculley (1939-, American businessman, former chairman of Apple Computers)
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
Thomas Secker
They that govern the most make the least noise.
John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman)
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
If you judge, investigate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
If you would judge, understand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
Victor Serge
Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service (1874-1958, British poet)
Every cause needs people more than money, for when the people are with you and are giving your cause their attention, interest, confidence, advocacy and service, financial support should just about take care of itself; whereas, without them in the right quality and quantity in the right places and the right states of mind and spirit, you might as well go and get lost.
Harold J. Seymour
Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
He that is well paid is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. Shannon
There is very little difference between men and women in space.
Helen Sharman
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
Becky Sharp
A man who has no office to go to, I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy (1937-, American journalist, author)
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy (1937-, American journalist, author)
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher (American author of "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was")
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953, American artist, metaphysics teacher, author)
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski
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