Top 100 A Man Who Quotes
#1. A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge
#2. Sometimes we allow pride to keep us running after a man who doesn't want to be captured.
Lisa Marbly-Warir
#3. So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn't really asked me, with a boss that didn't want me to and a town that wouldn't let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.
Dolly Parton
#4. He wasn't here to satisfy my idle curiosities. And it held its own fascinations: a man who talked like an innocent and fucked like a sybarite.
Alexis Hall
#5. But what do you say to have any impact on a man who at one time admired the Spice Girls?
Karl Ove Knausgard
#6. Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
W. Somerset Maugham
#7. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
Thomas Paine
#8. The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral ... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
#9. For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana
#10. If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don't want to dance, then you're going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.
Sherman Alexie
#12. One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
Richard Steele
#14. A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced
Sunday Adelaja
#15. I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Henny Youngman
#16. As he slowly climbed the stairs, Cassidy looked upward and vowed in Scarlett O"Hara-like fashion, "As God is my witness, I shall never kick a man who"s got my dick in his mouth again.
Ethan Day
#17. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
#18. Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.
Deanna Raybourn
#19. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
#20. Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.
Madeline Miller
#21. A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
Ed Wynn
#22. I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, Got any shoes you're not using?
Steven Wright
#23. My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.
Harry Truman
#24. Tonight was awful. It was the combination of everything. Of the play "Goodbye My Fancy," of wanting, in a juvenile way, to be, like the heroine, a reporter in the trenches, to be loved by a man who admired me, who understood me as much as I understood myself.
Sylvia Plath
#25. The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.
Ann Whitman
#26. A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover's quarrel like a criminal case
Francine Prose
#27. Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#28. Oh but the gods do so love me," I shared softly. "To give me a man who would allow his soul to be taken over by the darkness of night, for he's a man who loves so deeply, he lost those who had his love, was cast into the shadows, and he refuses to crawl to the light.
Kristen Ashley
#29. A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
John Le Carre
#31. There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."
Charlie Munger
#33. A man who's got no fear is missing a friend, Jorg,
Mark Lawrence
#34. A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
Rajneesh
#35. Sometimes it feels as if I am living with a man who I don't know. A man whose face seems familiar but remains a stranger.
Mia Asher
#36. If you're a man who works in comedy full-time and you aren't aware of what your female colleagues go through (if you have female colleagues at all), stop assuming that their experience is the same as yours, and start wondering why they aren't talking to you. The
Lindy West
#37. You know, I observed a man who masturbated until he bled. Did he want to do that?
David Wong
#38. A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#39. What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.
Bryan Cranston
#40. This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
Dan Quayle
#41. I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
Graham Chapman
#43. A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
Samuel Johnson
#44. I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.
Michael Douglas
#45. A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.
Karen Abbott
#46. David was a man after God's heart because he was a man who understood God's heart and sought to protect the heart of God. You cannot protect God's heart until you intimately understand His heart.
Chaim Bentorah
#47. A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
B.F. Skinner
#48. I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#49. Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.
Jane Green
#50. A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
W. H. Auden
#52. A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
Baron De Montesquieu
#53. He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive
Mario Puzo
#54. Only the eyes give him away his equilibrium. He looks like a man who has seen too much
Simon Hattenstone
#55. Its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.
Kevin Hearne
#56. A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .
Robert Bringhurst
#57. This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing - and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
Patricia Briggs
#58. A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).
G.H. Hardy
#59. You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.
Midge Ure
#60. A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#61. A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.
Donald Kingsbury
#62. Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Jose Rizal
#63. You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person. lady basildon.
Oscar Wilde
#64. A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.
Orson Scott Card
#65. A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
John Stott
#66. There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera
#67. A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
Oscar Wilde
#68. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?
Zhuangzi
#69. Yes, madam," he said, with the exceeding politeness of a man who has just imagined raping you.
Karan Mahajan
#70. To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
Albert Camus
#71. There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#72. Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.
Paul Theroux
#73. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.
Timothy Egan
#74. I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
Abraham Lincoln
#75. What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.
Idris Elba
#76. A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#77. Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.
Larissa Ione
#79. He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
Greg Mortenson
#80. Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.
Michael Ondaatje
#81. A man who lives a lie will soon enough be consumed by it,
R.A. Salvatore
#82. A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Hunter S. Thompson
#83. You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.
Socrates
#84. There's nothing more tragic than a man who gains weight like a woman does.
Edan Lepucki
#85. Christ ... said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
Bertrand Russell
#86. There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.
Plato
#87. In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.
Nas
#88. A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
#89. A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#90. Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
Orison Swett Marden
#91. Humility is really a subjective matter. Only God can truly tell a man who's humble!
Kingsley C. Okei
#92. A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
Will Rogers
#93. The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
Erica Jong
#94. The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac
#95. My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.
John Varvatos
#96. It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn't that quixotic of me?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#97. A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
#98. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
#99. - a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
Trevor Noah
#100. A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
