A Quotes
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“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.”
“A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.”
“A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.”
“A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.”
“A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.”
“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“A man is a mortal being.”
“A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.”
“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
Source: Plays of Gods and Men
“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
Source: Notes on Life and Letters
“A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.”
“A man is able to make progress despite his problems due to his peace of mind.”
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
“A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.”
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“A man is accountable to no person for his doings.”
“A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.”
“A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.”
Source: The diary of Antoine Roquentin
“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”
“A man is always better than he thinks.”
“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.”
Source: Galactic Pot-Healer
“A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”
“A man is an increasingly hard thing to find. We live in a society of boys - twenty-, thirty-, forty-, fifty-, and sixty-year-old boys. Many guys today seem to have the goal of maintaining a junior-high mentality all the way through life. The ultimate in life seems to be to retire, still a boy. I suggest there is virtually no difference between the shuffle board courts of St. Petersburg, Florida, and the parties at Daytona Beach. The proof of my suggestion is that those playing shuffleboard would be at Daytona Beach if they were fifty ears younger. They've not developed into men at all; they've just gotten older.”
Source: The Mature Man: Becoming a Man of Impact
“A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“A man is an island, but the water is deep
And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
When you look for independence and you get what you want
How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
But time and again, it dawns on me
It's the price we pay for liberty
I should have know, we all need a place to call home”
“A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.”
“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.”
“A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.”
“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.”
Source: Ethics
“A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.”
“A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.”
“A man is as old as his arteries.”
“A man is as old as his spine is flexible!”
“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”
“A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is. Therefore do away with complaint about past sufferings and with all language like this: "None has ever been worse off than I. What sufferings, what evils have I endured!" after all, what point is there in being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy.”
“A man is as young as his spinal column.”
“A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.”
“A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability”
“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”
“A man is beautiful through his heart. Christ was.”