Top 100 A Man Should Never Quotes
#2. A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Tom Ford
#3. A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
David Eddings
#4. A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.
Antoine Laurain
#6. Then it is your opinion ... that a man should never-"
-Invest in portable property in a friend?" ... "Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.
Charles Dickens
#7. She was the very embodiment of why a man should never do wrong by a woman. Revenge could be bloody awkward.
Angela Verdenius
#8. Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller
#9. My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.
George R R Martin
#10. A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
Peter F. Drucker
#11. The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner
#12. A man should never neglect his family for business.
Cecelia Ahern
#13. A man should never pull a trigger unless he's willing to kill. And if the other fellow is armed, I'm going to aim for the chest. That way, when people do die around me, it's the right ones.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope
#15. A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
#16. Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.
Zane Grey
#18. A man should never measure his wealth in achievements or personal riches, but rather by his love for her. She is more than a woman; she is a queen. She is more than the world; she is your universe.
Chris Flores
#19. He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.
Allan Dare Pearce
#20. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
#21. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.
Robert Jordan
#22. Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors' fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should've told him that.
Ilona Andrews
#23. When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
Oscar Wilde
#24. A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Baltasar Gracian
#25. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#26. Man, Fury was right. You should never trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. I should have listened to you. You told me Petra was a three-wolf-humping bitch, but did I listen? (Fang)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
Tamara Mellon
#28. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
Benjamin Franklin
#29. Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.
Elle Kennedy
#30. I would have looked away, should have, but I had never seen a green one. A weaker man might have plucked out his own eyes, but being a philosopher, I knew the sight could never be unseen, so I persevered.
Christopher Moore
#31. Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
A.S. Byatt
#32. Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,
and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,
the man should get a go-between to approach her.
Mallanaga Vatsyayana
#34. A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
Sue Grafton
#35. What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.
Vincent Van Gogh
#36. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.
Thomas Browne
#37. He should never have let himself be drawn into this, but the singer said that love can make a fool of any man.
George R R Martin
#38. A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.
Kim Du-han
#39. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
George Henry Lewes
#40. A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
Joyce Brothers
#41. I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.
Noreena Hertz
#42. It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
George Farquhar
#43. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
Frederick Forsyth
#44. When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm
Pele
#45. Never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring ... the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
Jodi Picoult
#46. I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.
Philip Guston
#47. Their eyes locked. Again, heat rose to Livy's cheeks. He needed to stop looking at her that way. She never should have noticed the captivating hue of his sky-blue eyes. When was the last time a man flustered her like this. Maybe never.
Teresa Tysinger
#48. I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?
Gloria Guinness
#49. So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe
#50. I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Tiberius
#51. A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
John Selden
#52. The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.
Archibald MacLeish
#53. I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my selfe ...
Thomas Browne
#54. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.
Anonymous
#55. They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.
Doug Larson
#56. Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.
Thomas Bulfinch
#57. Mummy always told me, you should never let a man see your feelings or the contents of your handbag.
Sophie Kinsella
#58. Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
George Eliot
#59. I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
William George Jordan
#61. There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.
George R R Martin
#62. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.
Elizabeth Peters
#63. The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston
#64. I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.
James Stockdale
#65. I know what the right woman, at the right moment, can do to a man- not that Tessie seemed to have got away scot-free herself. Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.
Tana French
#66. You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Miles Davis
#67. You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on."
"You should join a nudist colony
Agatha Christie
#68. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.
Norman Lock
#69. ...she had enough experience around testosterone to know the shit going through a man's head at any given moment should never be revealed for public consumption. Especially female public.
Terri Osburn
#70. Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.
John Irving
#71. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!
Raheel Farooq
#72. A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.
Pat Boone
#73. You should be a billionaire, Randy.
Thank god you're not."
"Why do you say that?"
"Oh, because then you'd be a highly intelligent man who never has to make difficult choices - who never has to exert his mind. It is a state much worse than being a moron.
Neal Stephenson
#74. If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
Christopher Love
#75. My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#76. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
#77. I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show ... What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?
Chris Rock
#78. That man loved me so hard I knew I'd never do half of what I should to deserve it. And that was the point. He said I never had to do a thing to make him love me. He just did. He just loved me.
Rachael Herron
#79. Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
Fulton J. Sheen
#80. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.
Claire North
#81. John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.
Tom Bodett
#82. Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene - the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
#83. The old man drank his coffee slowly. It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it. For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.
Ernest Hemingway,
#84. I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
Alexander McCall Smith
#85. You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
Alice Hoffman
#86. Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel De Montaigne
#87. I would give up everything for you, Giulia"
I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world ...
Deanna Raybourn
#88. A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
Virgil Thomson
#89. I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
Kate Chopin
#90. I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.
Walter Russell
#91. Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#92. It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside, should never do anything extremely important or crucial in their life without first consulting a list of persons in the world, living or dead, whom he loves.
J.D. Salinger
#93. Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
Swami Vivekananda
#94. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.
George Gershwin
#95. But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.
David Hume
#96. If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
Billie Burke
#97. Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.
E. M. Forster
#98. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#99. Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.
Kirk Cameron
#100. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest Gaines
