W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.”
Source: The works of Dr. John Tillotson ... with the life of the author
“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”
“When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.”
“When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.”
“When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.”
“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Source: The Age of Reason, etc
“When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!”
Source: He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts
“When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.”
“When a man hits a target, they call him a marksman. When I hit a target, they call it a trick. Never did like that much.”
“When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.”
“When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.”
“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....”
Source: Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
“When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.”
“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
Source: Molloy: A Novel
“When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.”
“When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.”
Source: An Artist of the Floating World
“When a man is a fair way and sees all life open in front of him, he seems to himself to make a very important figure in the world. His horse whinnies to him; the trumpets blow and the girls look out of windows as he rides into town before his company; he receives many assurances of trust and regard - sometimes by express in a letter - sometimes face to face, with persons of great consequence falling on his neck. It is not wonderful if his head is turned for a time. But once he is dead, were he as brave as Hercules or as wise as Solomon, he is soon forgotten. It is not ten years since my father fell, with many other knights around him, in a very fierce encounter, and I do not think any of them, nor so much as the name of the fight, is now remembered. No, no, madam, the nearer you come to it, you see that death is a dark and dusty corner, where a man gets into his tomb and has the door shut after him till the Judgement Day. I have few friends just now, and once I am dead I shall have none.”
Source: The Sire De Maletroit's Door
“When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty, a different fragrance to it. It is something divine, it is something of the beyond. It is deeply fulfilling. It brings great contentment.”
“When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.”
“When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.”
“When a man is about to die, it is would be a great sin, would it not, to waste what time he has left to him.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.”
Source: Fear No Evil
“When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.”
“When a man is asleep, he leaves the world and forgets all joy and all sorrow. If he kept his spirit in the same state on waking, he would know perfect happiness.”
“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.”
“When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”
“When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
“When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
Source: A Column of Fire
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”
“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume
“When a man is discussing forms of charity he should undertake. He's not in a mood to discuss the sources of his income.”
“When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.”
“When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?”
“When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.”
“When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.”
“When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.”
“When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.”
“When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”
“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis