A Quotes
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“A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.”
Source: Works ...
“A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.”
“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him”
Source: The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery
“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
“A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.”
“A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.”
Source: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.”
Source: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
“A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
“A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.”
“A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.”
“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”
Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
“A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.”
“A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”
Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.”
Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“A man's country is the world.”
“A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.”
“A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”
“A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.”
“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”
“A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.”
“A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.”
“A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.”
Source: Great dialogues of Plato
“A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
“A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.”
“A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.”
“A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.”
“A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
“A man's errors are what make him amiable.”
“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.”
“A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.”
“A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past”
“A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
“A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.”
“A man's fate is his own temper.”
Source: Vivian Grey
“A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”
Source: Vivian Grey
“A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.”
Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”