A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
‐‐ Bear Grylls
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
‐‐ Alexander Smith
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
‐‐ Adam Clayton
A man's secret is like the handle of a sword. Be careful who you hand it to because the sharp point is at you.
‐‐ Edward Asiminei
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
‐‐ Leland Stanford
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
‐‐ Paul Valery
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan
A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
‐‐ Albert Camus
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius
A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
‐‐ Paul Simon
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
‐‐ Samuel Butler
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
‐‐ Maureen McCormick
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius
A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an accident.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
‐‐ Rudolph Valentino
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
‐‐ Albert Pike
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
‐‐ Tom Ford
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
‐‐ Michael Frayn
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
‐‐ Helen Rowland
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
‐‐ James Allen
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
‐‐ Jean Kerr
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
‐‐ Larry McMurtry
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
‐‐ Richard Burton
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
‐‐ Francis Bacon
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
‐‐ Herman Melville
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
‐‐ George A. Moore
A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.
‐‐ Peter Marshall
A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.
‐‐ Helen Andelin