A Quotes
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“A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.”
“A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.”
Source: The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30
“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
“A man grows bored with a woman, no matter how beautiful; he yearns for different pleasures, and for adventure.”
Source: The Art Of Seduction
“A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.”
“A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.”
Source: The Rambler
“A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.”
“A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“A man...had reached the age of fifty -three without ever having succeeded in inspiring love, Monsieur de Granville admired sensitive natures, like all men who have never been loved.”
“A man had to discover his purpose in life sooner rather than later. And while his journey might be a bit harder than most, and he had been set back by the
unfortunate accident that had wiped his memory, he would work twice as hard to achieve a place in this world. Without that, he had nothing to offer her. And nothing was not something any man should bring to the table.”
Source: Once I Knew
“A man had to learn, it was his nature.”
Source: The Fixer
“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.”
Source: 1829-1836
“A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.”
“A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“A man has a right to want to live.”
“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.]”
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.”
“A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers.”
“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“A man has been stealing wheels off of police cars. They are working tirelessly to catch him.”
Source: Gags and Extracts
“A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.”
“A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.”
“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.”
“A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”
Source: Philosophical Texts
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.”
“A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.”
“A man has his tools
to fix things, I have
my spices to do the
same. Though
adding turmeric to a
vehicle or ginger to
fix a broken door probably wouldn’t be a good idea, so don’t do that.”
Source: Health & Not Screwing It Up
“A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present”
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
“A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.”
“A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.”
“A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.”
“A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.”
“A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.”
“A man has no enemy worse than himself.”
“A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.”
“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“A man has no right to mother-comfort beyond childhood. The ease he takes in his lifetime comes during and after hard work and hard love, in the midst of effort, not before.”
Source: Castration and Male Rage: The Phallic Wound
“A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily”
“A man has not fully lived until he experiences that gentle balmy clime of ancient empires, the land of lemon trees and the genius of Michelangelo.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.”
“A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.”