A Quotes
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“A man needs his suffering to overcome sin.”
“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”
Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers
“A man needs only his daily bread.”
“A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.”
“A man needs to be extremely ugly, to become famous or rich, and still be regarded as ugly by most women.”
“A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?”
“A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand stand in our abilities to be tough, to conquer, to impress and to win in all aspects of our lives in order to be validated by others and in doing so we have built our conceptual house of self on the sand of societal opinion. Yet, ironically, it’s only when a man finds his true strength in humility, in its purest sense, will he ever experience what genuine power and respect feels like. The man who builds his conceptual house of self on the rock of unpretentious decorum simply needs no validation outside of his creator. He is who he is…and for all intense and purposes that is the only respectable power any man should ever seek.”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.”
Source: Irving Babbitt, representative writings
“A man needs understanding because he is existentially alone. He stares into the darkness.
That was the difference between men and women, Leo thought. Men need groups and gangs and sport and clubs and institutions and women because men know that there is only nothingness and self-doubt. Women were always trying to make a connection, build a relationship. As though one human being could know another.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.”
“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.”
“A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.”
Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays
“A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“A man never forgets his mistakes.”
“A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.”
“A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”
Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga
“A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.”
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
Source: Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm
“A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.”
Source: Adam Bede
“A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.”
“A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated): Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…
“A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.”
“A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.”
“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.”
“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.”
“A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.”
Source: Lyrics
“A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.”
“A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.”
“A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.”
“A man obtains his God-the-Preceptor at the age of twelve years and four months. At the age of twenty four years and eight months he gets and sees Atma, God, in the seventh plane. It takes twelve years and four months in the body for God’s manifestations and realizations in multifarious conditions in the process of transformation of life-power into God.”
“A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.”
“A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.”
“A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?”
“A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.”
“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
“A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”
“A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.”
Source: The Correspondence
“A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
“A Man Of Chance Has Many Regrets, A Man Who Takes No Risks Has Many More”
Source: Whispers of Wisdom: Philosophical Quotes of Luc Jorgart
“A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.”
“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”
Source: The Edge of the Sword
“A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.”
“A man of character is like a noble and precious metal. No criticism, pressure or corruption is able to nullify its essence of values.”
“A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.”
Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
“A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.”