All Quotes

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
‐‐ Oswald Chambers

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
‐‐ Benjamin Haydon

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
‐‐ Karl Kraus

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
‐‐ John Ruskin

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
‐‐ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.
‐‐ Lyndsy Fonseca

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
‐‐ Merlin Olsen

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
‐‐ James Goldsmith

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
‐‐ Margaret Turnbull

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
‐‐ Prince Philip

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
‐‐ Louis Nizer

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
‐‐ Chi Chi Rodriguez

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
‐‐ John Webster

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
‐‐ Euripides

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.
‐‐ John Varvatos

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
‐‐ Aeschylus

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
‐‐ Sacha Guitry

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
‐‐ Don Marquis

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.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

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.
‐‐ Paracelsus

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.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

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.
‐‐ Julie Burchill