A Quotes
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“A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.”
Source: Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8
“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
“A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.”
Source: Letters on Art and Literature
“A man is born as a freeman. And shall die being freed. In between, he must strive to free himself from every slavery.”
“A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life. An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail.”
“A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.”
“A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Source: 道德经
“A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society's gates open to welcome him; he comes into contact with his fellows. For the first time he is scrutinized and the seeds of the vices and virtues of his maturity are thought to be observed forming in him.
This is, if I am not mistaken, a singular error.
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first word which arouse with him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life.”
Source: Democracy in America
“A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.”
“A man is born upon the banks of the Indus,
where there is none to tell of Christ
And no one to read or write about him;
And all his inclination and his actions,
As far as human reason sees, are good;
He is without sin in word or deed.
He dies unbaptised and without faith:
Where is the justice in condemning him?
Is it his fault, if he does not believe?”
Source: The Divine Comedy: Dante Alighieri
“A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass”
Source: The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
“A man is but his state of mind.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.”
“A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.”
“A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.”
Source: Aphorisms
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”
“A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.”
“A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.”
“A man is confronted four times in life:
When he has little money.
When he has little knowledge.
When he has much money.
When he has much knowledge.”
“A man is considered good not only by his actions but also by his thoughts.”
“A man is converted by deep knowledge of life.”
“A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.”
“A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.”
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.”
Source: Reflections
“A man is defined by his character, not his bank account.”
“A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.”
“A man is destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness. No amount of economic growth can compensate for such losses.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“A man is either free or he is not.”
“A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”
“A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.”
“A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.”
“A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.”
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”
Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”
Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer
“A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.”
Source: Poems and prose
“A man is fearful of lonely in a woman”
Source: A Book of American Martyrs
“A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.”
Source: Sex & Character
“A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.”
“A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.”
“A man is free to do good to the extent that he does good. If a man claims he could do good, but doesn’t do it, he either doesn’t know what goodness is or he doesn’t know what freedom means.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience
“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them”
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.”
“A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).”