A Quotes
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“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.”
“A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.”
“A man cannot be stolen, however, he can be encouraged to leave.”
“A man cannot be too careful in selecting the individual who is intrusted with his cartel. He should run over the names of his friends, and endeavour to obtain the services of a staid, cool, calculating old fellow; if possible, one who has seen some few shots exchanged: but I should advise his never choosing an Irishman on any account, as nine out of ten of those I have had the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with, both abroad and in this country, have such an innate love of fighting, they cannot bring an affair to an amicable adjustment.”
Source: The Art of Duelling
“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.”
Source: Heretics
“A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”
Source: Marx: Later Political Writings
“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.”
“A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker”
Source: A Grave Robbery
“A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.”
“A man cannot do good before he is made good.”
“A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.”
“A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?”
Source: The Crow
“A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?"
~Saliman”
“A man cannot force his destiny. A man can only hold it back.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”
Source: An Art of Living
“A man cannot give what he does not have good or bad behavior is a reflection of one’s background”
“A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason”
“A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.”
Source: The essays of Elia...
“A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.”
Source: The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: Revised and Corrected by the Author. ...
“A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.”
Source: Heretics
“A man cannot hide from his secrets; he may as well hide from his skin.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.”
“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”
Source: Leviathan
“A man cannot learn anything until he admits his ignorance.”
“A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.”
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
Source: The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle
“A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.”
“A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.”
Source: Comanche Moon
“A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.”
“A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.”
“A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.”
“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.”
Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures.
- On Religion”
Source: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
“A man cannot simply remove pain. He can only trade it for a different kind of pain. He cannot erase darkness. He can only invite a different kind of darkness.”
Source: The Weaver
“A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
“A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.”
“A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.”
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“A man cannot un-see the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness or go blind once he has the gift of sight, anymore than he can be unborn.
We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap ourselves in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement; superiority to other men.
But there is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. We do our best to deny its existence, dealing in lies and distraction. Until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out… I am not a well man. Only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure.”
“A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.”
“A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.”
“A man capable of love, or I should say rather a man who was by nature incapable of not loving; but a man who could not wholeheartedly accept the love of another--such a one was Sensei.”
Source: Kokoro
“A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.”