A Quotes
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“A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor -- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.”
“A man remains a Christian as long as he makes the effort to give the central assent, as long as he tries to utter the fundamental Yes of trust, even if he is unable to fit in or resolve many of the details. There will be moments in life when, in all kinds of gloom and darkness, faith falls back on the simple, ‘Yes, I believe you, Jesus of Nazareth; I believe that in you was revealed that divine purpose which allows me to live with confidence, tranquility, patience, and courage.’ As long as this core remains in place, a man is living by faith, even if for the moment he finds many of the details of faith obscure and impracticable.
Let us repeat; at its core, faith is, not a system of knowledge, but trust.”
“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”
Source: Above Life's Turmoil
“A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.”
“A man rising above the clouds says goodbye to the mind he had while under the clouds, because now he has a different view of the world and a new mind!”
“A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.”
Source: Think Back on Us
“A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.”
“A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.”
“A man runs away,
from places,
from people,
from responsibilities ,
and sometimes from his self.”
“A man’s ability to give is dwarfed by his ability to take. Those who profit by fulfilling man’s need to take by giving will be the most powerful on earth.”
Source: The Workshop
“A man's act according to his belief.”
“A man's action always takes it's result along.”
“A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.”
Source: Dirty Havana Trilogy
“A man's attitude goes some ways. The way his life will be.”
“A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cricket ground!””
“A man's belief is his basis of behaviour.”
“A man’s beliefs about the effects of the substance will largely be borne out. If he believes that alcohol can make him aggressive, it will, as research has shown. On the other hand, if he doesn’t attribute violence-causing powers to substances, he is unlikely to become aggressive even when severely intoxicated.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“A man's body has not enough blood to function with his brains and penis at the same time.”
“A man's body is his body as his mind is his mind; and that can only be a balance and a union of the two.”
Source: Saint Thomas Aquinas
“A man’s chances of being great at what he does are greatly reduced by his being good in bed (unless he is a prostitute).”
“A man's character is being tested in times of trials.”
“A man's character is best described in his epitaph”
“A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.”
“A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden influences both atavistic and of more immediate heredity. When, like soft clay, the newborn human spirit has been first fashioned by the firm hand of the modeller and then allowed to set and harden, this is the moment of the final character emerges, fixed for life. While the part played by heredity will always remains elusive and uncertain, the influence of a man's early years are not difficult to unfurl if we know where to seek and consider seriously what we find.”
Source: The Phoenix Land: The Memoirs of Count Miklos Banffy
“A man’s character is revealed in how he faces challenges, not how he avoids them.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“A man’s code of honor is what he has to fall back on when every road around him seems to lead nowhere.”
Source: The Bandit's Redemption
“A man’s courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don’t, he will funk worse next time. I hadn’t enough courage to be able to take chances with it, though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most was being afraid.”
Source: Mr. Standfast
“A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.”
“A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A man’s determination is measured, not only by his steady steps towards his goal, but also by his humility in accepting help after a fall and continue walking. Therein lies the stuff he is made of.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A man's earthly possessions are in one of two places - the place he left them in or the place his significant other moved them to without telling him.”
“A man's education is necessary as his experience.”
“A man's existence is a great mystery.”
“A man’s fate is a woman’s destiny...”
Source: Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心
“A man's fate is his faith.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A man’s fortress can be his prison.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“A man’s gift will give him freeway in the world”
“A man's got a choice, live on his knees or die on his feet. Done kneeling.”
Source: Burn Down Master's House
“A man's great desire is to be there. Yet even here he feels pleasure in being there.”
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
“A man's heart is the first thing to quicken in his mother's womb, and the last to grow still in him. But in him now it sure must soon some to rest.”
Source: Kristin Lavransdatter
“A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.”
“A man's imperative command is not only to say "no" in cases where "yes" would be a sign of "disinterestedness," but also to say "no" as seldom as possible. One must part with all that which compels one to repeat "no," with ever greater frequency. The rationale of this principle is that all discharges of defensive forces, however slight they may be, involve enormous and absolutely superfluous losses when they become regular and habitual. Our greatest expenditure of strength is made up of those small and most frequent discharges of it. The act of keeping things off, of holding them at a distance, amounts to a discharge of strength,—do not deceive yourselves on this point!—and an expenditure of energy directed at purely negative ends. Simply by being compelled to keep constantly on his guard, a man may grow so weak as to be unable any longer to defend himself.”
Source: Ecce Homo
“A man's integrity isn't found in what he does for others, but how he feels about it after it's done.”
“A man's level of "toughness" (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a "p*#%y" by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered "fair game".”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“A man’s life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.”
Source: The Good Guy