A Quotes
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“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”
Source: The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!”
“Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
According as his humors lead,
A meaning suited to his mind.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.”
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
“Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.”
Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.”
“Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.”
“Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.”
“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.”
“Any man who discourages a mom from breastfeeding their newborn baby is probably abusive to the said woman and would later channel that abuse to the kid too.”
“Any man who discovers their gift dominates”
“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”
Source: Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels
“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”
“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.”
“Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.”
“Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.”
“Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.”
“Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'”
“Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.”
“Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”
“Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.”
“Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.”
“Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.”
Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback
“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”
Source: Warlock
“Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.”
“Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.”
“Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”
“Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.”
“Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”
“Any man who is doing a job is working to make himself obsolete”
Source: Nova Express
“Any man who is good by heart is a great man!”
“Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.”
Source: Hippocrates
“Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.”
“Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.”
“Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.”
“Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.”
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
“Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
“Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.”
Source: The Art of LIVING LONG
“Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.”
Source: For the Roses