A Quotes
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“A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.”
“A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.”
“A man who marries a woman inferior to himself i.e. 'adopts' her must expect that she cannot feel anything for him but liking and gratitude. A woman is better off than a child, after all; if necessary, she can take care of herself, like any man. That she nevertheless allows her husband to pay all the bills is a personal concession that can be retracted at any time. She is entitled, therefore, to high expectations: everything done for her must be first-rate, otherwise she may engage another protector or else, depending upon circumstances, even decide to take care of herself. Compared with the real father, a wife's 'adopted father' has no hope of becoming his pseudo-child's protege in his old age, either. The most he can hope for is the status of an inadequate or pseudo-protege i.e. if he is lucky, he may come to enjoy the woman's altruistic love, her charity.
The woman even gets a reward: she inherits his property, his insurance, his pension rights, so that he can go on providing for her after his death, the death she is statistically prepared to survive for, on the average, six years, plus the number of years she is younger than he is.”
Source: The Polygamous Sex
“A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.”
“A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil
“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”
“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“A Man Who Meditates Is The Sexiest Man Alive”
Source: Kundalini Tantra Yoga: A Self-Discovery Journal
“A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.”
“A man who moves mountains must be first motivated.”
“A man who moves mountains must be motivated.”
“A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.”
Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“A man who never learns how to manage his time will never live a fulfilling life.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!”
“A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.”
Source: Courtship Rite
“A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.”
“A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.”
“A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.”
Source: London, the Doggy and Me
“A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.”
“A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.”
Source: Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life
“A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.”
Source: Essays in Idleness
“A man who owns two shots of ayahuasca owns all of the knowledge that there has ever been.”
“A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.”
“A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness”
“A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
Source: The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
“A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.”
“A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.”
“A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing … The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.”
Source: Men of the Bible: Abraham, Moses, Naaman, Nehemiah, Herod, John the Baptist, The Man Born Blind, Joseph of Arimathea, The Penitent Thief
“A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.”
“A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.”
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.”
“A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.”
Source: Democracy in America
“A man who raises his hand at a woman, has no right to the world.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“A man who reads will find himself.”
“A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.”
Source: Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“A man who recognizes his place is to be rewarded."
"And a woman who spurns hers is to be feared.”
Source: A Cult of Questionable Motives
“A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.”
Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!”
“A man who rejects you is simply clearing the way for the One you deserve.”
“A man who relentlessly perspires
to be excellent evidently inspires
many with his intelligence and
elegance.”
“A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.”
“A man who respects his mother will respect his wife and a man is respected by the world who respects his mother and his wife”
“A man who restricts the freedom of his mistress or wife, by any prohibition, rings the death knell of his "eternal love" in advance, which was not strong enough to pass beyond the limits of his own personal egotism. In most cases, this jealous selfishness first flatters young women; but her ideal will be trampled on as soon as she admires his insane fear of his own impotent jealousy.”
Source: Sexual Mysteries: Oriental Love & Sexual Magic