A Quotes
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“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.”
“A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.”
Source: Hints for Lovers:
“A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.”
“A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.”
Source: The Ferrari in the Bedroom
“A man today who still aspires to integrity deserves a lot of credit.”
“A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?”
Source: How to Study the Bible
“A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.”
“A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.”
“A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!”
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”
“A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.”
“A man trying to convince me to accept terms I am not interested in:
Me: Sir I am trilingual, I speak English, Spanish and I understand sign language.
This is a sign that it ain’t gonna work.”
Source: 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women
“A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."”
“A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows”
Source: Happy Talk
“A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.”
“A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A man under debt not only loses the peace but also the people.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."”
“A man us measured by the depths of his commitments.”
“A man used to give loans to the people and used to say to his servant, 'If the debtor is poor, forgive him, so that GOD may forgive us.' So when he met GOD (after his death), GOD forgave him”
“A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.”
“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale
“A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.”
“A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.”
Source: Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.”
“A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."”
“A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.”
“A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.”
“A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.”
Source: Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith
“A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!”
Source: Lyrics 1964-2011
“A man walks fast along the forecourt of the station towards a gate, moving towards a train that's about to leave. I get shivery all over as I watch the back of his head, which is about Yuan's height, with hair and a neckline just like his. My eyes tell me what my mind knows cannot be true. I follow him along seeking the one thing that would confirm him as someone else. The man turns his head slightly to talk to a train official. I can see his nose in profile. My eyes sting.”
Source: Reading the Ceiling
“A man walks into a bar and says:
Take my wife–please.
So you do.
You take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her
and she leaves you and you’re desolate.
You’re on your back in your undershirt, a broken man
on an ugly bedspread, staring at the water stains
on the ceiling.
And you can hear the man in the apartment above you
taking off his shoes.
You hear the first boot hit the floor and you’re looking up,
you’re waiting
because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be
some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together
but here we are in the weeds again,
here we are
in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn’t make sense.
And then the second boot falls.
And then a third, a fourth, a fifth.
A man walks into a bar and says:
Take my wife–please.
But you take him instead.
You take him home, and you make him a cheese sandwich,
and you try to get his shoes off, but he kicks you
and he keeps kicking you.
You swallow a bottle of sleeping pills but they don’t work.
Boots continue to fall to the floor
in the apartment above you.
You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything’s okay and you tell them
you’re just tired.
And you’re trying to smile. And they’re trying to smile.
A man walks into a bar, you this time, and says:
Make it a double.
A man walks into a bar, you this time, and says:
Walk a mile in my shoes.
A man walks into a convenience store, still you, saying:
I only wanted something simple, something generic…
But the clerk tells you to buy something or get out.
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 walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.”
“A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets the cup and saucer between them. But the man doesn’t drink it; he keeps talking, so the coffee gets cold, useless. The coffee guy pours it out and pulls another, sets it up. The man still can’t stop talking and the next one goes bad too. So the coffee guy throws that one out, makes another. And this goes on, see? You may think you’re the coffee guy in the parable, but you’re not —you’re the espresso. (It’s like that in parables.) You’re not for you. You’re someone else’s beverage. And God, the coffee guy, he’s going to keep remaking you again and again, as many times as it takes until you’re drinkable. God’s pulling the shots and he’s got standards.”
“A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."”
“A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."”
“A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."”
“A man wants a partner who not only loves and respects him but also loves and respects herself. A man must fall in love with your whole being, not just your body. The less you do physically at the beginning of a relationship, the better because men love the seemingly unattainable girl. The worst thing you can do is make it easy for him.”
Source: This Girl's Got Game: A Smart Girls Guide to Having the Upper Hand over Men in This Game Called Love
“A man wants his favorite Venusian to trust that he can handle what is bothering him. To be trusted that he can handle his problems is very important to his honor, pride, and self-esteem.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.”
“A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.”
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A man wants to make improvements when he feels he is being approached as the solution to a problem rather than as the problem itself.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.”
“A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.”
“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy