A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
Source: The Women
“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.”
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.”
“A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than a stela in a temple...”
“A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more.”
Source: The Blackguard
“A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him.”
Source: R.U.R.
“A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.”
“A man has to be pulled and kept by the sensual aura of your being.”
“A man has to BE something; he has to matter.”
Source: The Proud Highway: Rejacketed
“A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. If you choose to follow the path of your dreams, commit yourself to it. Accept your path.”
“A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.”
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?”
“A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.”
“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'”
Source: My turn at Bat: the story of my life
“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.”
Source: My turn at Bat: the story of my life
“A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.”
“A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me; she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself”
Source: The Road Back
“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.”
Source: The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company”
“A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.”
“A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.”
“A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.”
“A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.”
Source: Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...
“A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
“A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.”
“A man hits me--I hit the man a little harder--then he won't do it again.' Unfortunately he did do it again--a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“A man holding a woman made of bad moods in his arms.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A man holy duty is to love a woman.”
“A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.”
“A man I am cross'd with adversity.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"”
“A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'”
“A man I used to love died in a hospital alone. We had grown apart and lost touch. I met a common friend one day at a bar and he told me about my ex-lover. Nobody claimed the body for two weeks: His parents refused, his only sister could not be found, and the hospital was certainly not going to release the body to his AA sponsor. So after two weeks they cremated him like all the other unclaimed bodies, put his ashes into a jar, and then allowed anyone to take it. But no one did. He was buried by the municipality in an unmarked grave. I drove to the cemetery. He was buried in Lot 12, Block 86, Section D. Incredibly precise locations for a person who is nothing but ashes unclaimed.”
Source: Burden of Ashes
“A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!”
“A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.”
“A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.”
Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes
“A man in a boat is crossing a river when he sees an empty boat on course to collide with him.
This doesn’t make him angry even though he’s an angry person.
But then he sees someone is in the boat — he calls out, telling them to change direction.
When his first call gets no response, he calls out again.
And when the second is also met with silence, he calls out a third time, throwing in some insults for good measure.
Before, he wasn't angry — now he is.
Before, the other boat was empty — now there's someone in it.
When you imagine the boats empty you won’t be so angry.”
“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”
Source: Eleanor Rigby: A Novel
“A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.”
“A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.”
Source: The English Patient: Special Edition
“A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company”
“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.”
“A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!”
“A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.”
“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”
“A man in armor is his armor's slave.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning