A Quotes
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“A man is hid under his tongue.”
“A man is hidden behind his tongue.”
“A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.”
Source: Sex & Character
“A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.”
“A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”
“A man is his own mystery.”
“A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.”
Source: To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith
“A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.”
“A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.”
Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year
“A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than
himself.”
Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons
“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...
“A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.”
Source: The Second Sex
“A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.”
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.”
“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.”
“A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.”
“A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“A man is just not the body where he lives but rather a man is where his thoughts live. We as humans over time start to live within ourselves and our thoughts.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.”
“A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.”
“A man is known by the company he keeps”
Source: Aesop's fables
“A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.”
“A man is known by the company he organizes.”
“A man is known by the company he owns.”
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.”
Source: Ponkapog Papers
“A man is known by the silence he keeps.”
“A man is known his deeds.”
“A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.”
Source: Modern Painters
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
Source: We
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”
“A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.”
“A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.”
“A man is like an optional extra; you should only take one on when it is beneficial to do so. It's like refraining from the fourth plate at the all-you-can-eat curry buffet. Just because it's there, doesn't mean you have to have it.”
Source: The Twelve Dates of Christmas
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.”
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
Source: As A Man Thinketh (Annotated with Biography about James Allen)
“A man is little more than his problems.”
Source: In Limbo
“A man is little use when his wife’s a widow. Scottish proverb”
Source: Inspector Morse: The first three novels
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
“A man is made for success.”
“A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.”
“A man is made of emotions,
largely, and intellect – wit,
humour, rationale and that's it?
No! A man is the rob that hides a soul”
Source: Moving for Moksha
“A man is meant to sacrifice many things for a woman, save his VIP: his Verity, Integrity, and Probity.”
“A man is measured by the depths of his commitments.”