W Quotes
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“When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous”
“When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.”
“When a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet girl, who can soothe his cares with crochet, and respond to all his most cherished ideas with beaded urn-rugs and chair-covers in German wool, he has, at least, a guarantee of domestic comfort, whatever trials may await him out of doors. What a resource it is under fatigue and irritation to have your drawing-room well supplied with small mats, which would always be ready if you ever wanted to set anything on them ! And what styptic for a bleeding heart can equal copious squares of crochet, which are useful for slipping down the moment you touch them ? How our fathers managed without crochet is the wonder; but I believe some small and feeble substitute existed in their time under the name of 'tatting'.”
“When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.”
“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.”
Source: Marion Fay: Trollope's Works
“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed”
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.”
“When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.”
“When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.”
“When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.”
“When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.”
“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
Source: Voltaire's Candide
“When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.”
Source: The Art of Money Getting + The Humbugs of the World (2 Unabridged Classics)
“When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.”
Source: Odes and Epodes
“When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.”
Source: The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc
“When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.”
Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”
Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
“When a man is no longer scared to die he is free to live.”
Source: AnonMan
“When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.”
“When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.”
“When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.”
Source: The Tatler
“When a man is not satisfied with a house where he
lives, he becomes an architect”
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”
Source: Cry Wolf
“When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.”
“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”
Source: The Lonesome Gods
“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”
“When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One”
Source: Miscellaneous Pieces: Easyread Comfort Edition
“When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.”
Source: Wilderness Days
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
Source: Killosophy
“When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.”
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
Source: Ethics
“When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'”
Source: The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus
“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”
“When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”
Source: Murderers abroad: five complete novels
“When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.”
“When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.”
“When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106
“When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isn’t fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge — it’s the fear of not being able to resist the desire to jump, just to see what falling feels like.”
Source: Russian Dolls
“When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!”
“When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.”
“When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”