A Quotes
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“a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.”
“A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.”
Source: Selected poems
“A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)”
“A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.”
“A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.”
“A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?”
“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
“A man is worked on by what he works on.”
“A man is worth more than money.”
“A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits”
“A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.”
Source: Starfarers
“A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
“A man kept his character even when he was insane.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear
“A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.”
Source: The Unnatural and Accidental Women
“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
Source: Imajica
“A man kneels before a woman to bring her to her knees.”
“A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.”
“A man knows his soul in sorrow.”
“A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.”
Source: Light from Heaven
“A man knows the difference between good and evil. There is no need to ask questions. A man knows the difference.”
Source: Cross Purposes
“A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it.”
“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
“A man, ladies, is not only attracted and retained by your sensuality or charm, he is also guarded (from cheating) and motivated (to succeed) by it too.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.”
“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.”
“A man left home in morning with 1 Rupee. He gambled with it and made millions. Then lost them all. He returned home in evening empty handed. His wife is clueless why loss of just 1 Rupee has drowned his husband in so much depression that he is not speaking a word. This is the illusion or Maya.”
“A man left in solitude barrows from his patience to pay his tolerance.”
“A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.”
“A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.”
Source: The Isle of Blood
“A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.”
“A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”
Source: The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902
“A man like me does not languish in the memories of the pleasures of his past. Moreover, the life of a gaunt and wizened age, of a wretched state in which yearnings and life breaths all slowly recede, holds no charm to me. So if end must come, may it be now.”
Source: Game of Big Numbers
“A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt”
“A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.”
“A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn him and say he had lost something, he would look serene and pay no heed. The praise and blame of the world are no loss or gain to him.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.”
Source: Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score
“A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.”
“A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?”
Source: Père Goriot
“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.”
“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.”