A Quotes
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“A man in armour is his armour's slave.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“A man in Black and White"
Some years ago, a child was asked
whether he liked radio or television best. The boy
said radio, because the pictures were better.”
Source: Collected Poems
“A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“A man in disheveled clothing approaches you with a knife and tells you to give him your belongings.
Imagine...
You take a deep breath and blow your community assistance horn, and the local de-escalation enthusiast arrives on his unicycle. He drapes him with the comfort blanket and gives him a hug, whispering in his ear that things will be okay.
You are stabbed 37 times and he uses the Subway gift card that was in your purse to buy himself a sweet onion chicken teriyaki sandwich from the $3.99 Sub of the Day menu
Isn't this public safety?”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.”
Source: The A.B.C. Murders
“A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.”
“A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!”
“A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?”
Source: The First Fast Draw: A Novel
“A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.”
“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”
Source: Halo
“A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.”
Source: Naughty in Nice
“A man in love is a sorry spectacle.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.”
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”
“A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.”
“A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.”
Source: Notes on the Piano
“A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.”
Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan
“A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.”
“A man in poverty suffers intermittently but a man in debt suffers constantly.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.”
“A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.”
“A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.”
“A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started!”
“A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures.”
Source: Hungry Ghosts
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”
Source: A Severe Mercy
“A man in the massive shadows
of the columns
of the Museum of Griefs-to-Come.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“A man in this world must solve a problem: to be with Christ, or to be against Him. And every man decides this, whether he wants to or not. He will either be a lover of Christ or a fighter of Christ. There is no third option.”
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often heard in human affairs. It is the saint alone who is large-minded enough to think and speak in this way. This is part of his authenticity.The person who is swift to hear and slow to respond is a stranger to an all-knowing illuminism. He believes that others, too, have some truth, and he is willing to be instructed by them. He is ready for the mind of God.”
“A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.”
Source: Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology
“A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."”
“A man is a collection of decent and brave moments.”
“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”
“A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.”
“A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.”
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.”
“A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.”
Source: Uther
“A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.”
“A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.”
“A man is a god in ruins.”
“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”