A Quotes
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“A man who treats his women like a princess is proof that he was raised by a queen.”
“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”
“A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.”
“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”
“A man who truly knows himself doesn't need to prove or be accepted by others, simply he can lay his head on the pillow late at night filled with tranquility.”
“A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.”
“A man who truly loves his wife is loved by the entire world”
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
Source: Winter's Heart: Book Nine of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A man who trusts himself comes to know the beauty of that the more you trust yourself, the more you bloom. The more you are silent, calm and cool. And the more he trusts, the more he will trust life. The more you trust, the more you can relax into your being. You know that you are cherished by the Whole. The Whole is breathing and pulsating in you. When you start feeling this love and trust of the Whole, you start to grow roots in your being.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.”
“A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet through his own head is called a suicide; but for those who give freedom to their pitiful, soul-debasing passions in the holy days of spring and youth there is no name in man's vocabulary. After the bullet follows the peace of the grave: ruined youth is followed by years of grief and painful recollections. He who has profaned his spring will understand the present condition of my soul. I am not yet old, or grey, but I no longer live. Psychiaters tell us that a solider, who was wounded at Waterloo, went mad, and afterwards assured everybody - and believed it himself - that he had died at Waterloo, and that what was now considered to be him was only his shadow, a reflection of the past. I am now experiencing something resembling this semi-death..”
Source: The Shooting Party
“A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.”
“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”
“A man who uses an imaginary map thinking that it is a true one, is likely to be worse off than someone with no map at all.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest
“A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.”
“A man who wakes up to a pair of double D breasts of his wife every morning, is neurologically destined to get used to them, regardless of their size. This is called “Habituation”. But this process of habituation does not say anything about the love and care between two persons in a committed relationship. Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other. And when love is born out of the pyre of commitment and attachment, it is no longer about having sex, it is about making love and becoming one with each other in every manner possible.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.”
“A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.”
“A man who wants a woman who’s uncomplicated doesn’t truly want love, because he doesn’t truly want a woman. Because all women are complicated. Girls are complicated. The only things not complicated are transactions, and that’s what Matthew and I had.
And with our arrangement, I realized, he wasn’t paying for sex. He was paying for me to be uncomplicated, and I accepted the money to hide who I really was.”
Source: The Sugar Baby Club
“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”
“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
“A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex drive. If he succeeds in becoming as cold as she, she can no longer bait him with sex into the role of provider. At most she could offer herself as an equal sex partner, as dependent on him as he is on her. If men could abstain from sex at judicious intervals they might even succeed in normalizing the female sex drive - even make women desire them more than the other way around.”
Source: The Polygamous Sex
“A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
Source: Chronicles of the Cross Collection
“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?”
Source: A Season in Hell
“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."”
Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy
“A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.”
“A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.”
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.”
“A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.”
“A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.”
“A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.”
“A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.”
Source: My Bondage and My Freedom: Top Biography
“A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.”
Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.”
“A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.”
Source: My Big Toe: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
“A man who will not love his wife despite her submission is a cowardly beast undeserving of any cage, for cages are for the strong; but that kind of man-child is meant for the marshes or hay field.”
“A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man”
Source: Blood Bound
“A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.”
Source: Mornings on Horseback
“A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.”
“A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.”
“A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr