W Quotes
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“When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.”
“When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.”
“When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.”
“When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was”
“When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.”
“When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him.”
Source: The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
“When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money,
his home, and his dog.”
“When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.”
“When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.”
“When a man meets the woman with whom he is destined to share his life, he knows.”
Source: A Lasting Love Affair: Darcy & Elizabeth
“When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.”
“When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.”
Source: Notable American Women
“When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.”
Source: This Business of Living
“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”
Source: Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness
“When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.”
“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”
Source: Psychotherapy East & West
“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.”
Source: Psychotherapy East & West
“When a man ……...!!!! ..... no this is not a man….. !!!!!
When a man does not have any conviction,
When a man does not do what he believes in his gut feelings,
When a man live as a sailor’s life, the winds and waves are the controller of his path,
When a man drops all his moral compass whenever fits his survivor needs,
When a man tries to hide his believes for temporary or permanent gains,
When a man blinds himself to the “truth” and tries to replace it with the “convenience”,
When a man doesn’t face the storms head on and instead tries to give it his back
When a man declines of stating the fact and rather replace it with fiction of his own
When a man does not raise his head high enough to be seen to everybody and not stick it in the sand to hide from everyone.
When a man cannot control his anger and instead uses his muscle rather than his mind
When a man sells his soul for whoever may pay more
When a man does all the above, is not considered a real man, no, not at all, this is a man without balls, a fiction one”
“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”
Source: Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter
“When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.”
“When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.”
“When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his cares, sooth his sorrows, strengthen his principles, and educate his children.” – Hannah More”
Source: Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
“When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?”
“When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.”
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
“When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.”
“When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.”
“When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.”
“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”
Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“When a man plans, a woman laughs.”
“When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
“When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.”
“When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.”
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”
“When a man prepared to duel, he would bring a second. When Claire met with the Mortons, she would bring a sister.
Heaven help Charles Morton if he tried to cross them both.”
Source: Mistakes Not to Make When Avoiding a Rake
“When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.”
“When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.”
“When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.”
“when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. he is here to see that things stay the way they are. if you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. if you don’t like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.”
Source: Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness
“When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.”
“When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”
“When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God's sheep and Devil's goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”
Source: What's Wrong with the World
“When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it has received something Divine, does not demand anything else in order to convince it that this is precisely from the Lord; but by that very effect it is convinced that this is heavenly, for it senses within itself spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, and the rest (cf. Gal. 5:22).”
“When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.”