A Quotes
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“A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.”
“A man who won't listen can't hear.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
“A man who worries he's running out of time hasn't used his time well.”
“A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.”
“A man who,would forge front must have faith.”
“A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .”
“A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?”
“A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.”
“A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae”
“A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.”
“A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.”
“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.”
“A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.”
“A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.”
Source: W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography
“A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.”
“A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.”
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
“A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.”
Source: Survival
“A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.”
“A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.”
“A man whose head is already in the mouth of a lion does not think about the safety of his children.”
Source: The Creeping Palms
“A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.”
“A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.”
“A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”
“A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.”
Source: Wolf Among Wolves
“A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.”
Source: Comanche Heart
“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”
Source: Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War 3-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers
“A man will ask his wife and children, ‘Should I worry for you?’ They will say, ‘No, do not worry for us,’ then also he will not refrain from worrying, will he?”
Source: Worries
“A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.”
“A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.”
“A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
Source: Culture and Value
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.”
“A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“A man will be known by his books.”
“A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.”
“A man will commit almost any wrong,—he will heap up an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages,—only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for him to die in, and for his posterity to be miserable in. He lays his own dead corpse beneath the underpinning, as one may say, and hangs his frowning picture on the wall, and, after thus converting himself into an evil destiny, expects his remotest great-grandchildren to be happy there!”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“A man will destroy himself
Internally..
And show you a smile
That's 1000 mile
From being just that
So he can take the burden of your stress
And be with you”
Source: Songs, Death and Grime
“A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.”
Source: Duke Most Wanted
“A man will do better if he knew the best ways of living”
“A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country”
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
“A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.”
“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”