A Quotes
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“A man wants what a woman has - sex. He can steal it, persuade her to give it away, rent it, , lease it over the long term, or own it outright.”
“A man was asked: How do you maintain and preserve your five daily prayers?
He said: I realized that no one would accept meeting me five times a day in all my conditions, happy, sad, broken, weak, strong except for The Most Merciful.”
“A man was asleep in his open hut, when a huge snake bit him and swallowed his foot. The idea of this happening is enough to drive chills up any person’s spine. The snake then proceeded to chomp its way up the man’s leg, until it couldn’t go any farther. The man’s yelling and screaming brought people running to the rescue. Men with machetes hacked away at the thrashing monster, until the snake finally released its hold. Local legend has it that the man survived but lost his mind in the ordeal and hasn’t been sane since. Trinidad does have huge snakes including Pythons and South American Anacondas. The island, known for its snakes, has the greatest diversity of these reptiles in the Caribbean.”
“A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.”
“A man was created for good works.”
“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
Source: The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
“A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."”
“A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.”
“a man was found floating dead in the San Francisco bay. a note in his pocket read: I won't jump if someone smiles at me today.”
Source: UNSETTLED
“A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“A man was made to help support his children, which is the right and proper thing to do. A man was made to help support his children but, with a little bit o' luck, with a little bit o' luck, they'll go out and start supporting you!”
“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.”
“A man was once told by an astrologer that his wife would leave him for someone else and that would lead to his death. As a result of that prediction the man became increasingly fearful. He became extremely suspicious towards his wife even though she was devoted towards him.
He also started hating her and hitting because he believed she would not be loyal towards him and leave him. After ten years of constant physical and emotional abuse the wife had enough and became attracted to another man, she felt was much kinder. One day after yet another violent episode from the suspicious husband, she decided that she would leave him for the other man and ran away that evening! Shocked, the man committed suicide.
The man made that very thing happen that he feared! His own fear led him to commit actions that ultimately made his wife desert him. He made his life a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are going to make your life a self-fulfilling prophecy, might as well make it a constructive one, not a destructive one fueled by endless fear!
On a lighter note, if you are the impressionable kind, which many of us are, this is why sometimes it is best to not try and know your future!”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.”
“A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”
“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”
“A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.”
“A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.”
“A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105”
“A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”
Source: Murderers abroad: five complete novels
“A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road; the impression that she may make on her fellow travelers; and, above all, she is anxiously intent on the care of the finery that she carries with her, which is more than ever a part of herself, when going to figure on a new scene; when, to use an apt French turn of expression, she is going to produce a sensation. Can dignity of mind exist with such trivial cares?”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF W] [Paperback]
“A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”
“A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.”
“a man who apologizes
for things he’ll never stop doing
doesn’t love you
he doesn’t deserve you”
Source: Algedonic
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
“A man who asks for your time but doesn't value it, will one day ask for your money and won't return it.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”
“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.”
Source: The Color of Water
“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”
“A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.”
“A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.”
Source: By any means necessary
“A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.”
“A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.”
Source: The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.”
“A Man who breaks his Word, is none.”
“A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“a man who builds a house never really dies.”
“A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.”
“A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.”
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
Source: Things Fall Apart