M Quotes
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“Many a good man I have seen go under.”
“Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.”
Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc
“Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”
“Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.”
“Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.”
“Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.”
“Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.”
Source: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses
“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
Source: Ivanhoe: the History Focus
“Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”
“Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.”
“Many a maiden,
With white feet glancing light as air,
Made happy music through the gloom.”
“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”
“Many a man does not have a girlfriend, yet a girlfriend has him.”
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
“Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.”
Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon
“Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.”
“Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.”
“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
“Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“Many a man has known that startling instant in which Dan Cupid, that busy young rascal, took things in hand, and told him that his baby girl was not a baby girl now, and was about to fly away from him. It is both a happy and a sad thrill that shoots through a man at such an instant. Happy and joyous at his girl’s arrival at maturity; sad, as it brings to mind that awkward fact that his own youth is now but a myth; and that his scalp is showing vacant spots. His baby girl in a bridal gown! His baby girl a Matron! His baby girl proudly placing a grandchild in his lap!! It’s an impossibility!! But this big world is full of this kind of impossibility, and will stay so as long as Man lasts.”
Source: Gadsby
“Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.”
Source: De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped
“Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.”
“Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
“Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.”
“Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.”
“Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.”
“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
“Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.”
“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”
Source: Nothing Serious
“Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Many a man never fails because he never tries.”
“Many a man once started a friendship with a woman just to get into her life, with the sole intention of making her his girlfriend as soon as he could.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”
“Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.”
Source: Archy and Mehitabel
“Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.”
“Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.”
“Many a man wants glory but fails to work.”
“Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.”
“Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
“Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.”
“Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.”
“Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.”
“Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.”
“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”