A Quotes
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“A man safeguards the temperature in his house. He maintains a thermostat that perpetuates tranquility.”
Source: Black Butterfly Series
“A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.”
“A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems
“A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
Source: Dragon Blood
“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”
Source: Sarah Canary
“A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."”
“A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."”
“A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.”
Source: Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition
“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
“A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass”
“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”
“A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.”
“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.”
“A man seeks more pleasure than purity.”
“A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.”
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
“A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.”
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.”
“A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.”
“A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.”
Source: The secret books
“A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.”
Source: Aleph and other stories
“A man shall never be enriched by envy.”
“A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.”
Source: The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)
“A man shined to her left. He was called Lorenzo and he drank a hot chocolate with whole milk. He sipped it with fleshy, pink lips and
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gulped it down his large neck that seemed to be a kind of engine. The gulp went down his chest, where his muscles cooled after his calisthenics, and sunk somewhere behind the walls of his tight, tan stomach. He was a chess set of a man. He had burly knights as biceps, thick bishops as legs, healthy pawns as his troop of fingers, and the battlement of rooks as his fortified abs of stone.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.”
Source: Seven Plays
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
Source: The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index
“A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.”
“a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.”
Source: The Machine in Ward Eleven
“A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”
Source: Ravelstein
“A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.”
“A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.”
“A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.”
Source: Legend
“A man should be given the chance to bounce back.”
“A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.”
Source: The collected plays
“A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883
“A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he
should act like a man”
“A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.”
Source: Seven Years
“A man should be religious, not superstitious.”
“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”
“A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.”
“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.”
“A man should be upright, not kept upright.”
“A man should be what he can do.”
“A man should be what he seems.”
“A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.”
“A man should carry nature in his head.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.”