While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

God created man, but I could do better.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

The future will be better tomorrow.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.