A Quotes
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“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”
“A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.”
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.”
“A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.”
Source: The Letters of Mark Twain
“A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
Source: DUNE
“A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.”
“A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.”
“A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.”
Source: The Works of Augustus Toplady ... A New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Printed Verbatim from the First Edition of His Works, 1794
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.”
Source: The Return Of Merlin
“A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”
“A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.”
“A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right”
Source: The 42nd Parallel
“A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.”
“A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do”
“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
“A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.”
Source: Flowers and shadows
“A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.”
“A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.”
“A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.”
“A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!”
“A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.”
“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
“A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.”
“A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.”
“A man's head is his castle.”
Source: Something happened
“A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.”
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.”
“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.”
“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.”
“A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key”
“A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor”
“A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.”
“A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.”
“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”
“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”
Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
“A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.”
Source: Guide to Kulchur
“A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“A man's house is his castle.”
“A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.”
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
“A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.”
“A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.”
Source: Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology
“A man's idee in a card game is war”
Source: Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils ...
“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some