A Quotes
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“A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.”
Source: BioShock: Rapture
“A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.”
“A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”
Source: Mencius
“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”
“A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.”
Source: God, family, country: our three great loyalties
“A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.”
Source: With God in the World: A Series of Papers
“A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.”
“A man must plead for mercy from his maker.”
“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.”
“A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”
“A man must seek mercy.”
“A man must seek mercy every morning.”
“A man must seek mercy from his Maker.”
“A man must seek mercy more than money.”
“A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.”
“A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”
Source: South
“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”
Source: Captain Blood: Story Pirates
“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.”
“A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.”
“A man must submit to his Maker.”
“A man must take responsibility, according to your culture and the limit of your pocket. Don't try to show off when you have nothing left.”
“A man must take the fat with the lean.”
“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“A man must value is well being as a valuable wealth.”
“A man must wage war on himself to defeat his weaknesses and conquer his strengths”
“A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.”
“A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.”
“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”
“A man named Lucky walked into my pawnshop carrying a skull and a pie tin.
The skull was not in the pie tin, to be fair, but it was not the kind of thing I took in for pawn, either.
It was human.
"Please tell me that's fake," I said, torn between competing impulses to clutch my head or call the sheriff.
Lucky, who had a super cute, blue-eyed, blond-haired, boy-next-door thing going on, but with muscles that showed he just happened to be ex-Special Forces, squinted at me. "No, it's not fake, it's the pan from the pecan pie you baked for Molly last week. She asked me to drop it by."
I took a long, deep, breath. "No. The skull. Please tell me the skull is fake. Halloween decoration you want to pawn, maybe?"
He laughed. "Oh. Sorry. No, it's real. I'm on my way to find the sheriff and thought I'd drop off your pan. I didn't want to leave the skull in the car because what if someone broke into my car and stole it?"
I stared at him for a moment, because what were the odds that someone would:
1) break into his car, and
2) break into his car at the exact time there happened to be a skull in it, and
3) break into his car at the exact time there happened to be a skull in it and decide to steal the skull.”
Source: Apple of My Eye
“A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.”
Source: A child of the century
“A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.”
“A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!
("The Doomed Man")”
Source: Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
“A man needed a clear mind to fight his foe, not one distracted with thoughts of whether the fishpond might please his wife. Or who found himself mooning about how she was a hard worker, and so kind-hearted. Or thinking on how her laugh was high and full of joy and made him want to smile. Or daydreaming on how sweet her kisses were, and how good it felt to bury his cock in her warm body. Or wondering whether she might care for him as he'd come to realize he cared for her.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.”
“A man needs a heart that truly cares and a home that brings him peace. Sometimes, being alone, far from fake hearts and false love, is the only way to feel whole again.”
— Sami Abouzid”
“A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?”
“A man needs a purpose for real health.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“A man needs desire, or a woman’s sensuality, as a motivation to change or improve. Most women insist on using logic, reasoning, and force—masculine energy. That doesn’t work very well.”
“A man needs enough...no less, no more.”
“A man needs his circumstances to make a change.”
“A man needs his experience in order to be educated.”