A Quotes
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“A man's life is about keeping rules, breaking them, and making new ones.”
“A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.”
“A man's life is brief; a book's life may be prolonged century after century.”
Source: Esther Waters
“A man's life is but a fleeting moment.”
Source: The Nine Cloud Dream
“A man’s life is indeed short, ending in death. If it were long, his days would be of small value. If there were no death, of none. Let him fill each day with honor and joy. Let him not condemn himself or another, for he does not know the laws of his existence or theirs. If he sleeps in death, let him sleep. If while sleeping he should meet a god, he must let the god decide how well or ill he lived.
The god he meets must rule upon a man’s life, never the man himself.”
Source: Soldier of Arete
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“A man's love for a woman is not defined by his availability in bed, but by every ingredient he adds to improve the taste of the relationship.”
“A man's mind can be catapulted and transported from the gutters into the starry heavens by reading just the right book.”
Source: Trees by the river
“A man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength: as the sense of pain is a characteristic of weakness, so also is anger. he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.”
“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“A man's mission gives him meaning for living.”
“A man’s mouth can save him.
His speech makes one forgive him.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.”
Source: No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“A man's pain provides a means for his purification.”
“A man's past is his Prophecy and Pride is his future”
“A man’s penis and a snake share some similarities : both are long; both are flexible; both change in shape and in size when roused; both stretch longer and become firmer when in action; both spit out liquid (the former spits out urine and sperm, the latter spits out venom); both cannot do without holes (the former goes into a hole for maximum pleasure, the latter for safety); both recoil after sufficiently striking their targets.”
“A man's pillow is his best medicine”
Source: The Truelove
“A man's power
Is in his voice
and his thoughts and actions
Is in his choice
of his thoughts and actions
What do you choose today?”
“A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“A man's problems are his puzzles to be solve.”
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp; else what’s a heaven for? (Quote by Robert Browning)”
Source: Thunder Bay
“A man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him... By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign... We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them... but the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion.”
Source: On Heroes Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“A man's righteousness shall be his reward.”
“A man's safety is the fear of God.”
“A man's sexual organ is penis and woman's sexual organ is brains.”
“A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.”
“A man’s silence can echo louder than his words, especially when it conceals the depths of his heartache.”
“A man's soul, like the chameleon, takes colour from its environment.”
Source: The House of the Vampire
“A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“A man's strength is defined by the smile on his women's face.”
“A man's suffering is his saving grace from sin.”
“A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“A man's sufferings is his salvation.”
“A man's tales about God is good. But God's testimony is greater.”
“A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.”
Source: People of the Book
“A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius”
Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
“A man's trials are his best battle field. He must pray for strength to triumph.”
“A man’s ultimate dream of ecstasy is a woman’s ultimate expression of sensuality.”
“A man's value is more than money .”
“A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.”
“A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.”
“A man’s voice filled up my head from my jawbone up to the plates of my skull. The most beautiful and saddest voice that ever was... A voice like the whole old world calling up from the bottom of the sea. The man on Madeline Brix’s tape was saying he was happy, and he hoped I was happy, too.”
“A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.”
“A man's weakness is a woman's beauty...a woman's weakness is falling in love.”
Source: Veil of Lies
“A man’s weakness is his family and a woman’s is her child”
“A man's wickedness is upon his own head.”
“A man's wickedness shall be upon his own head.”
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man speaks. The foundational nature of all language is therefore metaphorical because every word a man speaks reveals himself—just as God reveals Himself through the Word. Every word spoken ultimately reveals the speaker.”
Source: The Rhetoric Companion
“A man's words will always express what has been treasured in his heart.”
“A man's wounded pride is a violate force.”
Source: Happily Ever After?