inspirational quotes for men

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II



I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch



An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston



A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. ~Author Unknown



I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!



A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~George Matthew Adams



Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran



Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb



It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell



What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton



Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that. ~Jim Murray



Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman



Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline



History is a bath of blood. ~William James, Memories and Studies



Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~Samuel Johnson



In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire



Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~Robert Frost



The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. ~G.R. Elton, The Practice of History