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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 4
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing-machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American industrialist, philanthropist)
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American industrialist, philanthropist)
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Liz Carpenter (American writer)
All the people of a country have a direct interest in conservation... Wildlife, water, forests, grasslands -- all are a part of man's essential environment; the conservation and effective use of one is impossible except as the others are also conserved.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964, American marine biologist, author)
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Angela Carter (1940-1992, British author)
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000, British novelist)
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000, British novelist)
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Lorene Cary
To retire is to die.
Pablo Casals (1876-1973, Spanish cellist, conductor, composer)
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cattier
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
That's the nature of women... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
Neville Chamberlain
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright)
I don't know why women want any of the things men have, when one of the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.
Jane Frances De Chantal
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933, American author)
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933, American author)
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Malcolm De Chazal (1902-1981, French writer)
Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian playwright, short story writer)
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about nor trusts them with serious matters.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child (1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality)
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child (1802-1880, American abolitionist, writer, editor)
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.
Lydia M. Child (1802-1880, American abolitionist, writer, editor)
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921, Mother of British prime Minster, Winston Churchill)
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
Eugenie Clark (1922-, American marine biologist, author)
Too much agreement kills the chat.
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-, American black leader, writer)
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908, American President (22nd and 24th))
I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
Bill Clinton (1946-, American President (42nd))
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett (1762-1835, British journalist, reformer)
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Eli Cohen
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925, American editor, essayist)
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
Robert Collier (1885-1950, American writer, publisher)
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
Robert Collier (1885-1950, American writer, publisher)
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.
John Churton Collins
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
I won't be concerned with other people not knowing me; I will be concerned with my lack of ability.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
Robert Conklin (American teacher, author, speaker)
People want riches; they need fulfillment.
Robert Conklin (American teacher, author, speaker)
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
Alistair Cooke (1908-2004, British broadcaster, journalist)
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929, American sociologist)
Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope (1945-, British poet)
Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell
Bill Copeland
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684, French dramatist)
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert (American author)
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Cousin (1792-1867, French philosopher)
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed.... Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667, British poet)
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender."
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Arlene Croce
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Davy Crockett (1786-1836, American backwoodsman)
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, British Parliamentarian General)
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, British Parliamentarian General)
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