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Quotes About Engagement

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
~ Eric Hoffer
Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.
~ Erich Fromm
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
~ Colette, Gigi & The Cat
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
~ Max Beerbohm
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.
~ Phyllis Diller
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
~ Plautus
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
~ Henri Bergson
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
~ John Mason Brown
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
~ Knute Rockne
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
~ Sharon Olds
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
~ William Bernbach
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
~ Ella Maillart
We cannot learn men from books.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.
~ Candace Bushnell
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
~ David S. Broder
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
~ Donald Horne
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.
~ George S. Patton
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
~ Henry Ward Beecher