Men Quote by Artemas Ward Download Open image “The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!… G. Washington never slopt over.” — Artemas Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Power Presidents day Weakness
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't. — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels. — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it. — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image