M Quotes
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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.”
“Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.”
“Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.”
“Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.”
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
“Many a man's tongue broke his nose.”
Source: Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain
“Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.”
Source: Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series
“Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.”
Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study
“Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.”
Source: Roads to Freedom
“Many a mess, but greater the grace of mercy.”
“Many a necklace becomes a noose.”
“Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
Rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
Tangled in a silver braid.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.”
“Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.”
Source: Cranford
“Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.”
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.”
Source: Now, Where Were We?
“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
“Many a person over the years has tried- both successfully and unsuccessfully, to get rid of their inner demons. Those who are successful are deemed artists, those who are not are call dreamers at best and lunatics at worse. But where exactly resides that line on which two worlds collide? Does somebody know? Is somebody fit to tell? Who's to say that those deemed lunatics are not just successes on the making? Who says that those who claim to be just a tad bit crazy are not just as crazy as those that had completely lost it? Maybe, and bear with me here…everyone is as crazy as the one before them and the next one could ever possibly be. Maybe at the end- it's just that some have mastered creating a façade of calmness and collection while others don't bother going through all that trouble anymore, if they ever did. Perhaps we all have demons…it's just that some people have demons far more toxic and difficult to ignore than others.”
“Many a person thinks that he or she has stolen treasure—in the form of a thing, or a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife—from someone who thinks that he or she has been relieved of trash.”
“Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.”
“Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.”
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”
“Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.”
“Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.”
Source: The collected plays
“Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.”
Source: D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments
“Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.”
“Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.”
Source: Prelude to Foundation
“Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.”
“Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.”
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
“Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.”
“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
“Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.”
“Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.”
Source: On the contrary
“Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.”
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.”
“Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Many a soul has been lost for lack of faith.”
“Many a soul has burned out inside but those who keep gazing at the stars, outperform the others....”
“Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.”
“Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.”
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Many a teacher was afraid when Amadeu's concentrated look fell on him. Not that it was a rejecting, provoking or belligerent look. But it gave the explainer exactly one chance to get it right. If you made a mistake or showed uncertainty, his look wasn't lurking or contemptuous, you couldn't even read disappointment in it, no , he simply averted his eyes, didn't wanted to make you feel it, was polite and friendly as he left. But it was precisely this tangible desire not to would that was destructive.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon