A Quotes
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“A man will keep chasing more sex with different women until he finds the One who possesses a divinity he can serve and adore.”
“A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.”
“A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.”
“A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.”
“A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags...”
“A man will never receive an invitation to participate in the secret relationships the woman in his life has with other females.”
“A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.”
“A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.”
“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”
“A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.”
Source: Black Boy
“A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.”
Source: Why Men and Women Act the Way They Do: The Reasons Might Surprise You
“A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.”
“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”
“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
“A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.”
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
“A man wishes to escape pain, therefore he sought for mere pleasure.”
“A man wishes to escape pain, thereof, he sought for mere pleasure. But mere pleasure leads to pain. If he had endured pain, he know purity, hence enjoy pure pleasure.”
“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”
Source: Cannery Row
“A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera.”
“A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.”
“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”
“A man with a club is a law-maker.”
“A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”
Source: When Prophecy Fails
“A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.”
Source: The Deep Blue Goodbye: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee
“A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.”
“A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality”
“A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
“A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.”
“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.”
Source: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
“A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!”
“A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.”
“A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.”
“A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.”
“A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.”
“A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists.
If they don't want you and me to use clubs, take the clubs away from the racists. If they don't want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. Don't teach us non-violence!!!”
“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
Source: Thinking as a Science
“A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.”
“A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.”
Source: The Son of a Servant
“A man with a soul is not like every other man.”
“A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live”
“A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!”
“A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.”