inspirational quotes for men

Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."


Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. ~E. Knight


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Kin Hubbard


The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf


Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. ~Smiley Blanton


There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ~E.V. Lucas


Bad excuses are worse than none. ~Thomas Fuller


I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there, but that does not stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die, because that's what being a bloke is. When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey, naked bottoms! We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve


Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle


The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz


Bill Hemmer: "You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better."


A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman


You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution" (Thanks, Corinne)


At Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie Holmes


There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell


Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~Benjamin Franklin


May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you. ~Irish Toast


Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. ~Walter J. Johnston


Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada


Did you hear about the baby born with organs of both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. ~Author Unknown