W Quotes
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“When a man remains over after death,
His deeds are set beside him as treasure, And being yonder lasts forever.
A fool is who does what they reprove!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.”
“When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.”
“When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.”
“When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.”
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
“When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories.”
Source: Invisible Cities
“when a man rolls over and sighs”
Source: Falling Awake
“When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.”
“When a man's breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown – he is free, he is light. And he longs to have his vultures back again.”
Source: Herzog
“When a man’s dreams live past the horizon of the sea, his soul dies a little each day he spends upon land and each mile he moves farther inland until ultimately one day he is nothing but a shell, empty and dead inside. Like a shell, you can hear the sound of the ocean if you hold it close enough to your ear and truly listen. In the sound of the ocean, you can find a man’s purpose and in his purpose you will find the meaning of his life. If you love this man, you’ll bring him back to the sea and set him free. If you greedily wish to showcase this man like a trophy on your windowsill, he may shine for you at times. Perhaps even your friends will comment how wonderful he is, but trust that a storm is brewing within. Each one of his stares into the distance is foretelling of a voyage of freedom to come. When this storm ultimately hits, it will take all that you have to survive and more likely than not, you’ll be separated in its gales.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“When a man’s face contorts in bitterness and hatred, he looks a little insane. When his mood changes from elated to assaultive in the time it takes to turn around, his mental stability seems open to question. When he accuses his partner of plotting to harm him, he seems paranoid. It is no wonder that the partner of an abusive man would come to suspect that he was mentally ill.
Yet the great majority of my clients over the years have been psychologically “normal.” Their minds work logically; they understand cause and effect; they don’t hallucinate. Their perceptions of most life circumstances are reasonably accurate. They get good reports at work; they do well in school or training programs; and no one other than their partners—and children—thinks that there is anything wrong with them. Their value system is unhealthy, not their psychology.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
“When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.”
“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“When a man's pride is made to bite the dust, resentment is the worm that eats his flesh”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“When a man’s spirit is let loose, no force from the pit of hell can hold him back from success.”
Source: Wells of inspiration: Sage's Secret
“When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!”
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.”
“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
Source: East of Eden
“When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.”
“When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.”
“When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“When a man says he wants to meet a girl with a sense of humor, he means one who will laugh at everything he says while her breasts jiggle.”
“When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.”
“When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.”
“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”
“When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.”
“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”
“When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.”
“When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed
“When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.”
“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.”
Source: War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
“When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.”
“When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.”
“When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.”
“When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.”
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.”
“When a man speaks assertively, people trust him: he’s confident. When a woman does it, men dislike her : she’s a bitch. It’s outrageous that women have to restrain themselves and act small for the benefit of protecting the fragile egos of chauvinists. As a matter of fact though, outspoken and bold women will only rise and win at Life no matter what.”
“When a man speaks assertively, people trusts him: he’s confident. When a woman does it, men dislike her : she’s a bitch. It’s outrageous that women have to restrain themselves and act small for the benefit of protecting the fragile egos of male chauvinists. As a matter of fact though, outspoken and bold women will only rise and win at Life no matter what.”
“When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.”
“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.”
“When a man springs back, he picks up the relationship at whatever degree of intimacy it was when he stretched away. He doesn't feel any need for a period of getting reacquainted again.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus