An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl William Brown



60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 20

 

 

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.

 

Author Unknown

 

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

 

Author Unknown

 

God bless your Christmas Season with happy days of cheer. God keep His richest favors and all His blessings near. God grant you after Christmas a bright and blessed New Year.

 

Author Unknown

 

God cares for people through people.

 

Author Unknown

 

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

 

Author Unknown

 

Help me to live time, not just to use it; to breathe it in, and return it in acts of love and presence.

 

Author Unknown

 

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

 

Author Unknown

 

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

 

Author Unknown

 

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

 

Author Unknown

 

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

 

Author Unknown

 

If the table moves, move with it.

 

Author Unknown

 

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be what you are now.

 

Author Unknown

 

If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

 

Author Unknown

 

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

 

Author Unknown

 

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

 

Author Unknown

 

In the end, the size of a man's accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart.

 

Author Unknown

 

Lost time is never found again.

 

Author Unknown

 

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

 

Author Unknown

 

Men never remember, but women never forget.

 

Author Unknown

 

Men never remember, but women never forget.

 

Author Unknown

 

Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.

 

Author Unknown

 

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

 

Author Unknown

 

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

 

Author Unknown

 

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.

 

Author Unknown

 

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

 

Author Unknown

 

Now is the watchword of the wise.

 

Author Unknown

 

Our costliest expenditure is time.

 

Author Unknown

 

People who know the least always argue the most.

 

Author Unknown

 

Reality forms around a commitment.

 

Author Unknown

 

Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.

 

Author Unknown

 

Soft words win hard hearts.

 

Author Unknown

 

Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

 

Author Unknown

 

Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done.

 

Author Unknown

 

Soon enough is well enough.

 

Author Unknown

 

Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren't well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn't soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happened on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.

 

Author Unknown

 

Ten rules for getting rid of the blues: Go out and do something nice for someone else, then repeat it nine times.

 

Author Unknown

 

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

 

Author Unknown

 

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

 

Author Unknown

 

The body achieves what the mind believes.

 

Author Unknown

 

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

 

Author Unknown

 

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

 

Author Unknown

 

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

 

Author Unknown

 

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

 

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)

 

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

 

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639, British diplomat, traveler, scholar, and poet)

 

The longest day soon comes to an end.

 

Author Unknown

 

The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.

 

Author Unknown

 

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

 

Author Unknown

 

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

 

Author Unknown

 

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

 

Author Unknown

 

Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

 

Author Unknown

 

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

 

Author Unknown

 

Three things make us happy and content: the seeing eye, the hearing ear, the responsive heart.

 

Author Unknown

 

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

 

Author Unknown

 

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

 

Author Unknown

 

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

 

Author Unknown

 

To save time is to lengthen life.

 

Author Unknown

 

To the right, books; to the left, a teacup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.

 

Author Unknown

 

Today is the best preparation for what tomorrow may bring.

 

Author Unknown

 

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

 

Author Unknown

 

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

 

Author Unknown

 

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

 

Author Unknown

 

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

 

Author Unknown

 

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

 

Author Unknown

 

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

 

Author Unknown

 

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

 

Author Unknown

 

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

 

Author Unknown

 

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

 

Author Unknown

 

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

 

Author Unknown

 

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

 

Author Unknown

 

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

 

Author Unknown

 

You can change the way you feel by changing the way you think.

 

Author Unknown

 

You love what you find time to do.

 

Author Unknown

 

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

 

Robert R. Updegraff

 

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

 

John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)

 

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

 

John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)

 

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

 

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)

 

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

 

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)

 

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

 

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726, British playwright and baroque architect)

 

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

 

Samuel Vauclain (1856-1940, American engineer, inventor)

 

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

 

Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)

 

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

 

Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)

 

Community partnerships, non-financial investments, and profitable social responsibility can offer companies of all sizes new ways to widen their community relationships. And community involvement is definitely good business.

 

C. William Verity Jr.

 

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

 

Dick Vermeil (1936-, American football coach, sportscaster)

 

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

 

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond

 

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

 

Queen Victoria (1819-1901, British queen)

 

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

 

Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)

 

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

 

Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)

 

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions.

 

Thomas J. Vilord

 

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

 

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)

 

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

 

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)

 

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. For every author, let us distinguish the person from his works.

 

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)

 

Men argue, nature acts.

 

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)

 

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