W Quotes
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“When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“When a man starts my program, he often says, “I am here because I lose control of myself sometimes. I need to get a better grip.” I always correct him: "Your problem is not that you lose control of yourself, it’s that you take control of your partner. In order to change, you don’t need to gain control over yourself, you need to let go of control of her.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself”
Source: Vintage Hughes
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
“When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.”
“When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion”
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
“When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.”
Source: A Man For All Seasons
“When a man takes care of a woman’s heart, he is taking care of his own.”
“When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.”
“When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”
“When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”
“When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.”
Source: Causes and Consequences
“When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.”
“When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”
“When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.”
Source: The Scientific Outlook
“When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.”
“When a man that attractive licks his lips, a girl's got to look. And imagine...”
Source: One Night with a Cowboy
“When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.”
“When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.”
“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.”
“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.”
“When a man thinks of conquering a woman,
it is because he has already been conquered by her first.”
“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.”
“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”
“When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.”
“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”
Source: Notre-Dame de Paris
“When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.”
“When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.”
Source: Selected Writings
“When a man values his well being, he begins to live well.”
“When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.”
“When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.”
Source: The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses
“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”
Source: The Great Chain of Life
“When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.”
Source: The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel
“When a man wants something he must pursue it with all he has. - Salvadore, The Tutor by Kailin Gow”
Source: The Tutor
“When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way”
“When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.”
Source: Collected Works
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
“When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.”
“When a man wants to rob a bank he hides behind a mask, but when a banker wants to rob a man, he hides behind a corporation.”
Source: We Can Fix It: Reclaiming the American Dream
“When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”
Source: The Landleaguers
“When a man was honest in his dealings, you could forgive him the rest.”
Source: Germinal
“When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows