A Quotes
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“A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!”
“A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.”
“A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.”
“A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”
Source: Handsome Harry: A Novel
“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.”
“A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.”
“A man who can't find anything to inspire himself in this world is the stupidest man! Look around, the moonlight, the sunset, the gleams on the sea, everything is an inspiration for us!”
“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.”
Source: Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”
“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.”
“A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.”
Source: Goethe : [selected Verse]
“A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.”
“A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.”
“A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.”
“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.”
“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”
Source: The Lollipop Shoes (Chocolat 2)
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
Source: Shame
“A man who causes fear cannot be
free from fear.”
“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
“A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.”
“A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.”
“A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.”
“A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.”
“A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”
Source: Men at Arms
“A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“A man who creates his own opportunity, even if the opportunity is not given, deserves to be applauded like a sapling growing in a place that seems impossible!”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters
“A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“A man who decides to call himself a woman is not giving up his privilege. He is simply using it in a more insidious way.”
Source: The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.”
“A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.”
“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order to “make others rich” is called a miserable wage slave by the socialist. Instead, they suggest that the man shed the shackles of this miserable burden by devoting his time and efforts, under the State’s direction, at the State’s pleasure, from the State’s property, in order to “make others less poor.”
Source: The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America
“A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.”
“A man who dies without adequate life insurance should
have to come back and see the mess he created.”
“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“A man who dishonors his wife is disrespected and ridiculed in his society”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“A man who does good works without Jesus Christ is like a man who takes his hard earned money to the bank, drops it at the counter and walks away without a bank account.”
“A man who does not appreciate silence must be sentenced to noise!”
“A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.”
“A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.”
“A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.”