All Quotes

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
‐‐ Oliver Herford

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
‐‐ Sacha Guitry

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
‐‐ Henry Adams

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
‐‐ Ben Hecht

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
‐‐ Adriana Lima

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
‐‐ Raney Aronson-Rath

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
‐‐ Jean Paul

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
‐‐ George Ade

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
‐‐ Garson Kanin

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
‐‐ Hallie Ephron

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
‐‐ Erland Josephson

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
‐‐ John Galsworthy

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
‐‐ Curt Siodmak

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
‐‐ Jacques Maritain

A man of courage is also full of faith.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
‐‐ Lord Byron

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
‐‐ James Joyce

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
‐‐ George Herbert

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
‐‐ Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
‐‐ Carlos Castaneda

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
‐‐ George A. Moore

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
‐‐ Jules Verne

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
‐‐ Herbert Read

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
‐‐ Edward Young

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
‐‐ Greg Walden

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
‐‐ Dwight L. Moody

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
‐‐ Michelangelo

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
‐‐ Isaac Stern

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.
‐‐ Jennifer Coolidge

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
‐‐ John Foster Dulles

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
‐‐ Arthur Helps

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge