W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.”
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”
“What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.”
“What a man does is the real test of what a man is.”
Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life
“What a man does not know is greater than he.”
Source: Arrow of God
“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.”
“What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.”
“What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. At death we enter upon a new course of life, and what that life shall be depends upon ourselves.”
Source: The Night Side of Nature
“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”
Source: The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
“What a man has, so much he is sure of.”
Source: The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,2: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...
“What a man hates, he takes seriously.”
Source: Essays
“What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.”
“What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is finery; finery, too, is a hiding place.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.”
“What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.”
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
“What a man is lies with in his spirit displayed by his action.”
“What a man is lies within his spirit displayed by his actions.”
“What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.”
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”
Source: The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight
“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts”
Source: Shane
“What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.”
“What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.”
“What a man may value highly, is detestable in God’s sight.”
“What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.”
“What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.”
“What a man never has, he never misses. I learned something from the big game animals. Their food is pretty much the same from day to day. I don't vary my fare too much either, and I've never felt better in my life. I don't confuse my digestive system. I just season simple food with hunger.”
Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.”
“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“What a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients.”
“What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.”
“What a Man SAYS-----and What a Man THINKS-----IS TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!”
“What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.”
Source: The Passenger
“What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”
“What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.”
“What a man thinks is no concern of the government.”
“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”
Source: the bell jar
“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
Source: the bell jar
“What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter
“What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters