A Quotes
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“A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.”
“A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.”
“A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.”
Source: See You at the Top
“A man or woman who travels in the end will never be kept. But if you understand that person well enough, they’ll always be by your side. They might have forgotten where their home is in this world - but you might just make them feel like the closest thing to feeling at home. And while they’ll be leaving country after country, this is the way you will never leave their heart.”
“A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.”
Source: The Luminaries
“A man ought to be a source of shame to his father, don’t you think? If I ever have a son, I hope he makes my life hell. How, otherwise, will there ever be any progress?”
Source: The Night Watch
“A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“A man ought to do what he thinks is right”
“A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.”
“A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.”
Source: On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle
“A man ought to learn from his mistakes.”
“A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.”
Source: Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.”
“A man ought to pray daily for himself, his wife, his children and his family.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
“A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.”
Source: The Razor's Edge
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Source: Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers
“A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.”
“A man perfect to the finger tips.”
“A man perfects himself by working.”
Source: Past and Present: The Historian
“A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.”
Source: Past and Present: The Historian
“A man, perhaps an inch shorter than Andrei, sensing the height comparison, slowly passed him. The stranger still wore an N-95 mask. The pandemic ended three years ago, but Andrei identified why masks were still worn by others. While millions had died from COVID-19, others silently and ashamedly rejoiced in the virus’ demands. The requirement of face masks made it mandatory for everyone to cover more than half of their face. And for those who disliked their face, they, for nearly two years, had the chance to go out in the world and not be ugly for once. Suddenly, while they were not beautiful, they were not hideous. Neutrality can do so much for someone. This period was like a gift for those with horrid teeth, large features, cystic acne, injuries, scarring, and discoloration. Never before were so many people looked straight in the eyes. Masks were some people’s only chance to show who they were. And now, when the pandemic had ended, they were back in the shadows. Large groups of people, however, as Andrei had seen, still wore them, beneath the excuse that the virus could still return. "I would love to kiss one of you on the cheek, he thought.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.”
Source: The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories
“A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.”
Source: A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)
“A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]”
“A man posing for a painting.”
“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”
“a man possessed with peace is always smiling”
“A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.”
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints”
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.”
“A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences. When he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment. When he breaks the chain of routine.”
“A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.”
“A man prays mostly when in pain.”
“A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.”
Source: The works ...
“A man prepared has half fought the battle.”
Source: Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote
“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.”
“A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.”
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian
“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”
“A man putting flowers on the grave of his wife saw a lady putting sandwiches on her husband's grave:
Man: do you really think your husband will eat those sandwiches?
Woman: yes......, just after your wife enjoys the smell of your flowers.
A state of a wisdom.”
“A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.”
“A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“A man reaches the peak of irrationality just before, and that of rationality just after, an ejaculation.”
“A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.”
“A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.”
“A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London