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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 7
Life is now... this day, this hour... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
Charles Macomb Flandrau
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Ian Fleming (1908-1964, British writer, "James Bond")
There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
Robert B. Fleming
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
Tom Flores (1937-, American football coach)
Getting fit is a political act you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda (1937-, American screen actor)
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote (1916-, American historian, novelist)
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B.C. Forbes
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B.C. Forbes
It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Anna Ford
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Anna Ford
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald R. Ford (1913-, American President (38th))
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford (1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company)
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman (1949-, American boxer)
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984, French essayist, philosopher)
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the "social worker" -judge.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984, French essayist, philosopher)
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Nicola Foulston (American business executive)
Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Edward Fox
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Men take more pains to mask than to mend. Games lubricate the body and the mind. Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
An educated people can be easily governed.
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),)
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
Marilyn French (1929-, American author, critic)
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Betty Friedan (1921-, American feminist writer)
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman (1912-, American economist)
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Milton Friedman (1912-, American economist)
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
Frederick (Carl) Frieseke (1874-1939, American-born French painter)
Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.
Patricia Fripp (British-born American author, speaker)
Modern man thinks he loses something -- time -- when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980, American psychologist)
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980, American psychologist)
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Witter Fuller (1810-1850, American writer, lecturer)
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983, American inventor, designer, poet, philosopher)
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
It is the property of fools, to be always judging.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Soft words are hard arguments.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Spill not the morning in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce.... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
Merrick Furst
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
Clark Gable (1901-1960, American actor)
Macho doesn't prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1918-, Hungarian-born American actress)
Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
Emile Gaboriau
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-, American economist)
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-, American economist)
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner (1912-2002, American educator, social activist)
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
John W. Gardner (1912-2002, American educator, social activist)
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield (1831-1881, American President (20th))
Cards were at first for benefits designed: sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
David Garrick (1717-1779, British actor, playwright, theater manager)
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865, British novelist)
An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George (1863-1945, British Prime Minister)
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
Paul Geraldy
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told one is angry.
Katherine F. Gerould
What usually comes first is the contract.
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983, American songwriter)
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
Joe Gibbs (1940-, American football coach)
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
George Gilder (American economist and author)
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Jerry Gillies
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
Jerry Gillies
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-, American poet)
I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
George Robert Gissing (1857-1903, British novelist, critic, essayist)
Time is money says the Proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Robert Gissing (1857-1903, British novelist, critic, essayist)
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden. What the moment brings forth is all that brings profit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
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