A Quotes
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“A man is powerful on his knees.”
“A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.”
Source: Collected Wisdom: The Art of Worldly Wisdom; Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims; and Maxims and Reflections
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”
Source: Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
“A man is restored to his gracious state through repentance than any religious action.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.”
Source: The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
“A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.”
“A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.”
“A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.”
“A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!”
Source: Osler's
“A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.”
“A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge”
“A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.”
“A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.”
“A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.”
“A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.”
“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”
Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers
“A man is set free from sin by the grace of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour.”
“A man is shaped by ash and honey. Ash for what burns away, leaving scars in nthe marrow. Honey for what lingers sweet on the tongue, the memory that keeps him walking.”
Source: Of Ash and Honey: The Making of a Man
“A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.”
Source: The Simple Life
“A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.”
“A man is so in the way in the house.”
“A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.”
“A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.”
“A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.”
“A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.”
“A man is supposed to be fierce. A man is a hunter and a warrior. A MAN beats his mate because she is smaller and gentler than he is (Okor scowled as he thought this). A man should not be gentle. All other creatures on earth walk in fear of the one called Man.”
Source: The Strange One
“A man is supposed to be ugly and fearful. He’s neither ugly nor fearful, and he’s mine.”
“A man is the origin of his action.”
“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”
“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”
Source: Twelve Essays
“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin
“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”
Source: Shantaram
“A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”
Source: Civilization and Ethics
“A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“A man is ushered into the glory of his salvation through suffering.”
“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”
“A man is valued by how sincere he is, and a man is also valued by how much he knows. But if a man knows nothing, he will be regarded a fool, no matter how sincere he is.”
“A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson