A Quotes
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“A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“A man might as well say that millers and cats and princesses are fabulous animals, because they appear side by side with goblins and mermaids in the stories of the nursery.”
Source: Avowals and Denials - A Book of Essays
“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“A man might choose to work alone, but when that’s too isolating, he comes to his wife for comfort.”
“A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.”
“A man might go to an office and run a computer that would correlate great masses of figures that came from sales reports on how well, let’s say, buttons—or something equally archaic—were selling over certain areas of the country. This man’s job was vital to the button industry: they had to have this information to decide how many buttons to make next year. But though this man held an essential job in the button industry, was hired, paid, or fired by the button industry, week in and week out he might not see a button. He was given a certain amount of money for running his computer; with that money his wife bought food and clothes for him and his family. But there was no direct connection between where he worked and how he ate and lived the rest of his time. He wasn’t paid with buttons. As farming, hunting, and fishing became occupations of a smaller and smaller per cent of the population, this separation between man’s work and the way he lived—what he ate, what he wore, where he slept—became greater and greater for more people. Ashton Clark pointed out how psychologically damaging this was to humanity. The entire sense of self-control and self-responsibility that man acquired during the Neolithic Revolution when he first learned to plant grain and domesticate animals and live in one spot of his own choosing was seriously threatened. The threat had been coming since the Industrial Revolution and many people had pointed it out, before Ashton Clark. But Ashton Clark went one step further. If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man’s work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren’t there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.”
Source: Nova
“A man might increase his desirability by creating a contract in which there is an expectation that he does all the chores.”
Source: The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships
“A man might not like it, but men had so many advantages that it didn’t matter if occasionally they had to do stuff they didn’t think was really fair.”
Source: What Comes After Crazy
“A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.”
“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”
“A man might stand for some time before an artwork of some brilliance, yes?”
Source: Hearts of Stone
“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it”
“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“A man must always take advantage of opportunities to piss and sleep. I've done the one, now it's time to do the other.”
Source: Hell Hole
“A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.”
Source: The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity
“A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.”
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
Source: The Power of Leadership
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.”
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
“A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.”
“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.”
Source: The spectator
“A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.”
“A man must be judged by what he makes of himself, Dr. Harrow. By what he does when no one else is looking. And having lived in proximity to Mr. Merripen and Mr. Rohan, I can state with certainty that they are both fine, honorable men."
Dodger extracted an object from the coat pocket and wriggled with triumph. He began to lope slowly around the edge of the room, watching Harrow warily.
"Forgive me if I don't accept assurances of character from a woman such as you," Harrow said to Miss Marks. "But according to rumor, you've been in rather too much proximity with certain gentlemen in your past."
The governess turned white with outrage. "How dare you?"
"I find that remark entirely inappropriate," Leo said to Harrow. "It's obvious that no sane man would ever attempt something scandalous with Marks.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.”
“A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.”
“A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.”
“A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.”
Source: Dead Man's Ransom
“A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.”
“A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.”
“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”
“A man must become wise at his own expense.”
“A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips."”
“A man must believe in his great mission, this he must pursue with great passion.”
“A man must bring happiness to the woman he has married.”
“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]”
“A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized”
Source: Three plays
“A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.”
Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“A man must constantly exceed his level”
Source: Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body
“A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.”
“A man must die while he is still immortal.”
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
Source: Miracle of the Rose
“A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.”