A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
‐‐ John Burnside
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
‐‐ Mark Twain
A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.
‐‐ Isabel Allende
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
‐‐ Lucille Ball
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
‐‐ Charles Darwin
A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
‐‐ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
‐‐ Kim Jong Il
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
‐‐ Yeardley Smith
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne
A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
‐‐ Richard Whately
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
‐‐ Yitzhak Shamir
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
‐‐ Christopher Morley
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
‐‐ Carl Jung
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
‐‐ George Savile
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt
A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.
‐‐ Alan J. Pakula
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
‐‐ John Millington Synge
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
‐‐ Paul Valery
A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!
‐‐ Faith Hill
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
‐‐ Vincent Price
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
‐‐ Marcus Valerius Martial
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
‐‐ Saint Bernard
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
‐‐ Judith Butler
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
‐‐ Andrei Platonov
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
‐‐ Malcolm X