Top 100 A Man Can Only Quotes
#1. In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past - sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
George Eliot
#2. I need to be gone before she gets up. Seeing her will only make it harder to stay away from her. A man can only be pushed so far before he gives in, regardless of the consequences.
M. Leighton
#3. You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
Auberon Herbert
#4. Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.
Robert J. Crane
#5. Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!
George MacDonald
#6. I need help," she said breathlessly. "Can you zip me up?"
"This has got to qualify me for sainthood," Silas muttered. "A man can only take so much, for fuck's sake.
Maya Banks
#7. A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
James Allen
#9. A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff
#10. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. A man can only be happy following his own inmost need.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
Fernando Pessoa
#13. 'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.' He said pretty like he meant something else.
Cara Hoffman
#14. What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
Claude Monet
#15. A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.
Michael Oakeshott
#16. I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
Adam Michnik
#17. A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs
Paul Newman
#19. A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.
Larry McMurtry
#20. I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz
#21. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.
Christoph Schonborn
#23. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
Esther Vilar
#24. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.
Mark Hopkins
#25. Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
Pearl S. Buck
#26. It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.
Djuna Barnes
#27. You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
Georgette Heyer
#28. Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.
Tim Allen
#30. Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.
Frank Sheed
#31. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.
Captain Perverto
#33. If you're going to be a musician's girlfriend, you have to know that your man will always love his bandmates in a way you can't even touch, because they are the guys who help him create music. You can only help him create a living human being, with your dumb uterus.
Julie Klausner
#34. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#35. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.
Jennifer Worth
#36. Only time can write a song that's really really real
The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels
And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals
Richard Hell
#37. We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.
H. Burke Peterson
#38. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
#39. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
#40. A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
Samuel Johnson
#41. I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.
Bernie Sanders
#42. Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.
Linda Kage
#43. Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.
Robin Hobb
#44. Thus it seems that the Cross of Christ, laden with every sinful refusal of man, must stand at the very last extremity of hell; indeed, it must stand beyond hell, where the Son is forsaken by the Father in a way that only he can know.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#45. My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.
Radclyffe Hall
#46. A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only ... He can only love her.
Catherine Anderson
#47. There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
Gregory David Roberts
#48. The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.
Auliq Ice
#49. Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
#50. A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Elie Wiesel
#51. Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
Peter O'Toole
#52. Can't trust a man with only half his teeth, the gentleman agrees. They
Rae Carson
#53. I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
Ann Voskamp
#54. The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#55. The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.
Kyle Schmalenberg
#56. ...only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.
Colum McCann
#57. Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
Robert Breault
#58. Whatever people say about the General today, I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#59. A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.
Liane Moriarty
#60. But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.
Tommy Tenney
#61. A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Graham Greene
#62. There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.
Kay Whitley
#63. Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy.
Julius Evola
#64. Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
Lev L. Spiro
#65. People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
Yann Martel
#66. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to,
Harper Lee
#67. We can learn only in the expectation of life. Europe is too preoccupied with its destruction to concern itself with such things. A condemned man is interested only in himself, the passage of hours and such intimations of immortality as he can conjure from the recesses of his mind.
Eric Ambler
#68. That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6, can do things only a small man can do.
Jerry Coleman
#69. A man once said, "There are only two questions man can ask himself that mean anything. Why did God create the world? And what do I do next?" ...
Brian Michael Bendis
#70. A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
#71. Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
Emile Durkheim
#72. Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and could not come by in any other way.
C.S. Lewis
#73. All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
Kenneth Tynan
#74. I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
Billy Graham
#75. If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
Dwight L. Moody
#76. When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.
Plutarch
#77. It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." "Dorian, this is
Oscar Wilde
#78. Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does. It's easy to stand hard times, because that's the only thing you can do, but in good times the fool-killer has to do night work.
George Horace Lorimer
#79. Contrary to popular opinion, a man can shut love out if he wants to. But to do so, he must free himself not only from the woman who has bewitched him but also from the third person in the story, the ghost who has put temptation in his way.
Orhan Pamuk
#80. You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little
darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.
Ned Beauman
#81. Ordinary man can try million times..but only a ambitions man try diffrent in million ways ... create new ways to solve existing problems.jj
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Friedrich Schiller
#83. If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
Brigitte Bardot
#85. An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.
Herman Melville
#87. If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
#88. One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.
Robert F. Hartley
#89. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl
#90. I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
Saint Ignatius
#91. There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#92. Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.
Lundy Bancroft
#93. Power resides only where men believe it resides. [ ... ] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
George R R Martin
#94. The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER
John C. Maxwell
#95. Just "being a man" is something I can't take for granted, since I was not born a man. But you know what? It turns out nobody else is born a man either. Sure, roughly half of us humans are born male - but only a fraction of that fraction grow into men.
T. Cooper
#96. Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect. He asked himself: How can I die? I was always like this. Now I am more me. He had the ammo. He took them all down.
Colson Whitehead
#98. You don't need a minute. I can educate you in seconds flat. I'm a man. Not only am I man, but a gay man. Not a chick, not some delicate girl you can seduce. A fucking man!" I pointed to the hallway. "Class dismissed.
S.J.D. Peterson
#99. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.
James Carlos Blake
#100. We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
