A Quotes
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“A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.”
Source: Dante
“A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.”
“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”
“A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.”
“A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.”
Source: Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
“A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.”
“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
“A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.”
“A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.”
“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.”
Source: Nightwood
“A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog.”
“A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.”
“A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.”
“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
Source: Uneasy Money
“A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.”
“A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.”
“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
“A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
“A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.”
“A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”
“A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.”
“A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.”
“A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist
“A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.”
Source: The World As I See It
“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”
“A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.”
Source: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen
“A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.”
Source: De Profundis
“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
Source: The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum
“A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.”
“A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”
Source: Chicanas Y Chicanos en Diálogo
“A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838
“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.”
Source: Some account of the life and writings of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679
“A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.”
“A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.”
“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.”
“A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.”