A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.”
“Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.”
“Any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”
Source: A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold
“Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!”
“Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.”
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
Source: DUNE
“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.”
Source: To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades
“Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.”
“Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition”
Source: All the Days
“Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.”
Source: The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel
“Any man who thinks he has it all figured out is a fool and cannot be trusted.”
Source: In Limbo
“Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.”
“Any man who thinks it makes moral sense for a person to keep a billion in the bank while their neighbour does not have food is not a capitalis but a satanism.”
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.”
“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.”
Source: The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects
“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”
“Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.”
“Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.”
“Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”
“Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.”
“Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.”
“Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.”
“Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.”
“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
“Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.”
Source: Feast of Stephen
“Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.”
“Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.”
“Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)”
Source: Borrower of the Night
“Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.”
“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”
Source: Lad: A Dog
“Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.”
“Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.”
“Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.”
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
“Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.”
Source: Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon
“Any man you see today is investing, one way or the other. Dear young man, invest wisely.”
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
“Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"”
“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.”
“Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”
“Any manager can do well in an expanding market.”
“Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points”
“Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.”
“Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.”
“Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.”