Top 100 A Man Can Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About A Man Can

#1. There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

#2. Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman." Her handmaid sighed. "When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.

Paula Altenburg

#3. A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.

George R R Martin

#4. A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. A man can be reforged.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#7. A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Helen Keller

#8. A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

Raymond Carver

#9. We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

Andrea Dworkin

#10. Pain has many faces ... the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains ... a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

Billy Graham

#11. Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. Be a father, if not, why bother, son?
A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one.
If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Ed O.G.

#13. The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.

Conn Iggulden

#14. Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round.

Tom Robbins

#15. A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles Schwab

#17. Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#18. I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Adam Michnik

#19. Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

Clarence H. Burns

#21. A man can't live alone forever and when a woman comes along who accepts him, his faults and demons, maybe it's time he reevaluates his future.

Airicka Phoenix

#22. A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

Martha Ostenso

#23. What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#24. I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Mark Twain

#25. A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

Michael Oakeshott

#26. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Helen Rowland

#27. It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.

Medgar Evers

#28. A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Joan Rivers

#29. I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Ozzy Osbourne

#30. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

#31. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?

Emily Matchar

#32. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

Charles Spurgeon

#33. Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

Evan Esar

#34. Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

#35. All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers ... only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

Louis L'Amour

#36. Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

Angela Carter

#37. To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

Leon Uris

#38. The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

Marshall Field

#39. A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Michael Crichton

#40. A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.

Mark Twain

#41. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

#42. If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#43. A man can't retire his experience.

Bernard Baruch

#44. A man can bear most anything, if he must,

George R R Martin

#45. A homeward-bounder is a chance for total reinvention, Mr. Nilssen," he said at last. "Find a nugget, and a man can buy his own life. That kind of promise isn't offered in the civil world.

Eleanor Catton

#46. When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Bob Gibson

#47. A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Socrates

#48. The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Maxwell Maltz

#49. A man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.

Thomas Merton

#50. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#51. There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

Rachel Roy

#52. Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Stephen King

#53. In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#54. Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Jules Verne

#55. There is one thing ... which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.

Jane Austen

#56. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#57. A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Malcolm Forbes

#58. A man can drown in shades of grey.

Mark Lawrence

#59. Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

George Washington

#60. A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Henry David Thoreau

#61. The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

Winston Churchill

#62. A man can say all kinds of things, but where he sets his spheres, that's where his heart is.

Brandon Sanderson

#63. There is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain

Seal

#64. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita

Amish Tripathi

#65. 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

#66. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Jonathan Swift

#67. The more a man can make a woman laugh, the more attracted she will be to him. This is primarily because women seem to prefer dominating mates. As studies shows, women tend to laugh more at men they are interested into and men are attracted to those women who laugh at their jokes.

F.R. Lifestyle

#68. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

Albert Camus

#69. If a man can beat you, walk him.

Satchel Paige

#70. '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

#71. You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

#72. A man can live three days without water; 40 days without food. But only five minutes without hope.

John Maxwell

#73. ... if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Plato

#74. Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#75. There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of despair, as well as the wreckage of the Phoenix. And which rescue is the more real? Nothing you could have done for me ... was more important than the restoration of my hope.

Connie Willis

#76. Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Bernard Baruch

#77. But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#78. A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

Willa Holland

#79. I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

Walt Disney

#80. The best sentence a man can say to a woman is "I want to meet your parents" or "You will be a good mother one day".

Yuli Pritania

#81. Please say you'll be my wife. I want you tied to me in every way a man can be tied to the woman he loves. I can't live without you and I never want to try. Share the boat with me. Share your life with me. If you will, I promise to keep you safe and happy every day for as long as I draw breath.

M. Leighton

#82. Change is about the narrowest and hardest groove that a man can get into.

G.K. Chesterton

#83. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

#84. I can do anything a man can do except get a hard-on--and that's only because I lack the equipment.

Marla Buchanan

#85. A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#86. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#87. I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Jose Saramago

#88. Alone
it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

H.G.Wells

#89. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Robert Penn Warren

#90. What the fuck, a man can't help his nature.

Stephen King

#91. The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#92. Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

Ezra Taft Benson

#93. A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Arnold Haultain

#94. By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

Jacob Braude

#95. That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That's what God expects us to do. We're to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.

Jennifer Erin Valent