A Quotes
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“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.”
Source: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
“A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.”
“A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.”
“A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.”
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.”
“A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.”
“A man's just gotta know his limits”
“A man's kiss is his signature.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”
Source: In Darkest England, and the Way Out
“A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.”
“A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.”
“A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.”
“A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“A man's life breath cannot come back again--
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”
Source: The Iliad
“A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
“A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.”
Source: Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism
“A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.”
Source: A Place on Earth
“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”
“A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.”
Source: Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind
“A man's life is his work; his work is his life.”
“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
“A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.”
“A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“A man's life is what he thinks about all day long.”
“A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.”
“A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.”
“A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.”
“A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.”
Source: Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel
“A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.”
“A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.”
Source: The American Senator
“A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.”
“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”
“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
“A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.”
“A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.”
“A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
Source: Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury
“A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.”
Source: The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.”
“A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.”
“A man's mistake should not reflect on how you view yourself as a woman.”