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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 3
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone (American author)
Today is unique. Don't let its wonderful moments go by unnoticed and unused.
Pat Boone (1934-, American country singer)
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth (1829-1912, British religious leader, founder of the Salvation Army)
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986, Argentinean author)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941, American judge)
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton (1989-1966, French surrealist)
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
Arthur Brisbane (American editor, columnist)
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893, American minister, poet)
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
J. Brotherton
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Mason Brown (1800-1859, American militant abolitionist)
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, "A woman's function plainly is... to talk." Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
Eve is a twofold mystery.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; they have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's "Look at me, Ma!" It's acceptance, you know -- "Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma." And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
Lenny Bruce (1925-1966, American comedian)
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Glen Buck
They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
George Earle Buckle (1854-1935, British journalist)
Do not live in the past, do not live in the future; concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett (1930-, American investment entrepreneur)
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett (1930-, American investment entrepreneur)
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Basil Bunting (1900-1985, British poet)
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
John Bunyan (1628-1688, British author)
I am content with what I have, be it little, or much.
John Bunyan (1628-1688, British author)
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan (1628-1688, British author)
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
Julie Burchill (British journalist, writer)
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill (British journalist, writer)
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns (1896-1996, American comedy actor)
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns (1896-1996, American comedy actor)
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
HSM Burns (American executive, president of Shell Oil)
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, American educationist)
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and everything else, if there is a woman within ken.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952, British author)
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass (c.1817-1895, American abolitionist, journalist)
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, American aviator, author)
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, American aviator, author)
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy (American spiritual writer)
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar (101-44 BC, Roman emperor)
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage (1912-1992, American composer)
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
John S. Caldwell
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie (1891-1976, British mystery writer)
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940, American businessman, founder of Chrysler Motors)
Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
What you declare, you will achieve. When you think you can't revisit a previous triumph.
Jack Canfield (American motivational speaker, author, trainer) Author's website: www.jackcanfield.com
In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
Joseph Cannon
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866, British diarist)
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
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