Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Walter Savage Landor

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

Ellen J. Barrier

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Ellen Tauscher

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Henry R. Luce

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Lisa Gardner

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

Miuccia Prada

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Sholom Aleichem

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Walter Savage Landor

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall m...

Michael Bassey Johnson

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dyin...

Warren Farrell

All men are mortal.

Traditional

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Andrew Carnegie

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.

Ali and Nino: A Love Story

The communication block between men and women: Men―"Can't you what I'm saying?" Women―"Can't you what I'm saying?

Richelle E. Goodrich

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

Lysander Spooner

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

Peter Scott