A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
‐‐ James Allen
A man is nowhere without money.
‐‐ Henry J. Heinz
A man is only as faithful as his options.
‐‐ Chris Rock
A man is only as good as what he loves.
‐‐ Saul Bellow
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
‐‐ Patrick Kavanagh
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
‐‐ Charles Wagner
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
‐‐ John Galsworthy
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
‐‐ Ramakrishna
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
‐‐ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.
‐‐ Mo Williams
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
‐‐ Marisa Tomei
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
‐‐ Israel Zangwill
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
‐‐ Thomas Mann
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
‐‐ Francois Mitterrand
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
‐‐ George Savile
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
‐‐ Robert Menzies
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
‐‐ Anna Jameson
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
‐‐ Thomas Browne
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
‐‐ Isaac Newton
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
‐‐ Charles Kingsley
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
‐‐ Aristophanes
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
‐‐ Amy Lowell
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
‐‐ Jean Genet
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
‐‐ Anne Bronte
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
‐‐ Madame de Stael