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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 19
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 16:3
Give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs!
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 30:8
Hold fast that which is good.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: 1 Thessalonians 5:21
I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Philippians 4:11
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 7:1
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Psalms104:23
None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Romans 14:7
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
So will I go in unto the king... and if I perish, I perish.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Esther 4:16
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 3:1
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 2:24
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles (528-462 BC Greek statesman, soldier)
The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
David Thomas (1953-, American businessman, founder of Wendy's Restaurants)
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
Lewis Thomas (1913-1993, American physician, educator)
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.
James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859, French social philosopher)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859, French social philosopher)
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.
Robert Townsend (1920-, American businessman, president of Avis)
Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
Robert Townsend (1920-, American businessman, president of Avis)
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.
Lee Trevino (1939-, American golfer)
Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.
Lee Trevino (1939-, American golfer)
You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.
Lee Trevino (1939-, American golfer)
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882, British novelist)
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump (1946-, American businessman, actor)
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989, American historian)
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
Tina Turner (1938-, American musician, actress)
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me -- I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells (1823-1900, British rhymester)
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Liv Ullmann
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer)
A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Author Unknown
A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
Author Unknown
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Author Unknown
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Author Unknown
A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time.
Author Unknown
A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.
Author Unknown
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
Author Unknown
A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.
Author Unknown
A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.
Author Unknown
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Author Unknown
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.
Author Unknown
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspirations and expectations.
Author Unknown
All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.
Author Unknown
Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.
Author Unknown
An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.
Author Unknown
An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.
Author Unknown
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
Author Unknown
Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead.
Author Unknown
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
Author Unknown
Behind every great man there is a great woman; and behind that woman is his wife.
Author Unknown
Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
Author Unknown
Between each down (dawn?) and setting sun, set aside some time for fun.
Author Unknown
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Author Unknown
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Author Unknown
Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
Author Unknown
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?
Author Unknown
Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent.
Author Unknown
Every great achievement was once success have no meaning. considered impossible.
Author Unknown
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