A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.”
“A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.”
“A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.”
“A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks”
“A man should value his life more than his money”
“A man should value is life as much as he treasured his money.”
“A man shouldn’t assume his wife was happy just because she didn’t complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He’d spanked her for it. That didn’t sit right somehow.”
Source: Cowboys in Charge
“A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.”
Source: Human Work
“A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“A man shows up. For himself and others. He doesn’t run, he doesn’t pass the buck, he shows up. And when he is hurt, or when he has done wrong, or has made his own mistake — a man shows up. For himself and others.”
“A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.”
“A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven’t even read it are dying because the ones who did haven’t got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain calibre.”
“A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)
“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
Source: East of Eden
“A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome.
Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong;
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long:
But, in the course of one revolving Moon,
Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon:
Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking;
Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking.
Blest Madman, who coud every hour employ,
With something New to wish, or to enjoy!
Rayling and praising were his usual Theams;
And both (to shew his Judgment) in Extreams:
So over Violent, or over Civil,
That every man, with him, was God or Devil.
In squandring Wealth was his peculiar Art:
Nothing went unrewarded, but Desert.
Begger'd by Fools, whom still he found too late:
He had his Jest, and they had his Estate.”
Source: Absalom and Achitophel
“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
Source: Rashomon: and other stories
“A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”
“A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.”
Source: Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education
“A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”
Source: Sister Mine: A Novel
“A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.”
“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”
“A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still.
The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled.
The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight.
What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings.
Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny.”
“A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.”
“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.”
“A Man Staying At Home All Day And Doing Nothing Could Be Worse Than A Psycho Woman.”
“A man stays alive as long as he is remembered.
He is killed only by forgetfulness.”
“A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.”
“A man strives to get direct mastery over things either by understanding them or by compulsion. But a woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone.”
Source: On Women
“A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!”
“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”
Source: This Business of Living
“A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.”
“A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.”
Source: ON AGRESSION
“A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.”
“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.”
“A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.”
“A man talking fast has something to hide.”
“A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.”
“A man ten times regrets having
spoken, for the once he regrets his silence. And why? Because the fact
of having spoken is an external fact, which may involve one in
annoyances, since it is an actuality. But the fact of having kept silent!
Yet this is the most dangerous thing of all. For by keeping silent one is
relegated solely to oneself, no actuality comes to a man’s aid by
punishing him, by bringing down upon him the consequences of his
speech. No, in this respect, to be silent is the easy way. But he who
knows what the dreadful is, must for this very reason be most fearful
of every fault, of every sin, which takes an inward direction and leaves
no outward trace.”
Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
“A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.”
“A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.”
“A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.”
“A man that can master patience can master anything.”
“A man that doesn't have a woman doesn't know if he is one (a "man").”
“A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.”
Source: The Writings of Will Rogers
“A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1 (Annotated Edition)
“A man that fights for every minute and every second of his life is a man that fights to be in control”
Source: No One Is Better Than You