A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A man likes to do what he is addicted to, so develop good habits and become a better version of yourself.”
“A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.”
Source: The Spinster Book
“A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just “Interest and Want“ play the role.”
“A man lives by believing something.”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.”
Source: Works
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
Source: The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg
“A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.”
“A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.”
Source: The Professor's House
“A man long enough sedated may no longer even realize he’s being sedated, or want to.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.”
“A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.”
“A man looks like a horse cart. His body is the cart itself, the mind is rider, and the emotions are horses. For an ordinary man, a rider drives the horse cart, whereas horses drive yours. You are ruled by your emotions and your emotions are all over the place and dispersed.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.”
Source: Our town: a play in three acts
“A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.”
“A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.”
“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”
“A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.”
“A man loves mere pleasure in search of happiness, which rather led him into pain. If he had sought for purity, he would have be happier.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“A man loves to reason than accept reality.”
“A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”
“A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.”
“A man makes choices,” Tal said.
“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.”
Source: King of Foxes
“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”
“A man makes mistakes, and those mistakes make him a learned man.”
“A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”
“A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.”
“A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes’ intelligent talk is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mahomet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with. The first French Republic created, when it affirmed property and abolished peerages; France still stands like a square, four-sided building which Europe has besieged in vain. The men of the Oxford Movement would have been horrified at being compared either with Moslems or Jacobins. But their subconscious thirst was for something that Moslems and Jacobins had and ordinary Angelicans had not: the exalted excitement of consistency. If you were a Moslem you were not a Bacchanal. If you were a Republican you were not a peer. And so the Oxford men, even in their first and dimmest stages, felt that if you were a Churchman you were not a Dissenter. [...] It was an appeal to reason: reason said that if a Christian had a feast-day he must have a fast-day too. Otherwise, all days out to be alike; and this was the very Utilitarianism against which their Oxford Movement was the first and most rational assault.”
Source: The Victorian Age in Literature
“A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.”
“A man marries a woman when she feels like home”
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
Source: Plays Volume One
“A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.”
Source: The Accursed
“A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.”
“A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far.”
“A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.”
Source: The Muse of the Department
“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”
Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise
“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.”
Source: A Sure Guide to Heaven
“A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.”
“A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it. What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God, attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.”
“A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.”
Source: The Bruised Reed
“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”
Source: A little book in C major
“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.”
“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.”
“A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.”
“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.”
Source: History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885
“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.”
Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
“A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.”