Quotes
Quotes about Men
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe. [Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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.
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightfulâjust as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
