Top 100 For A Man Quotes
#1. It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
James Clavell
#2. He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets
even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.
Gail Carriger
#3. I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.
Maya Banks
#4. Some were taking this or that nervine cure-all, but the best nervine for a man who is not absolutely past repair, is to break away entirely from his calling or greed and camp out on the sea shore ... and patiently wait for the return of good health. James Bradley
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#5. What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#6. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
Neil Armstrong
#7. I suppose if you take one part asshole and mix one part drugs, then stir in too much money for a man's own good, this is the kind of crazy gravy you end up with.
A. Violet End
#8. How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ...
Italo Calvino
#9. When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.
P.B. Kerr
#10. It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
John Sinor
#11. Helluva thing for a man to discover, that he loved somebody about two shakes after she was kidnapped.
Lucy Varna
#12. It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.
Alice McDermott
#13. None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Thomas Cole
#14. 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Anonymous
#15. Numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be dead not to feel a vigorous stirring for a man so incredibly handsome as her wandering polecat.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don't just wait for a man to come along. That's the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
Albert Camus
#17. It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.
John Fox Jr.
#18. The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else ...
Marcus Aurelius
#19. People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he needs?
Brandon Sanderson
#20. It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit.
Julie James
#21. It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided
Joseph Bonanno
#22. Better for a man to fail, he said, even to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Timothy Egan
#23. Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be ... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.
J.R. Ward
#24. I dinna trust that Q, that's a letter than has it in for a man. That's a letter with a sting, that one!
Terry Pratchett
#25. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.
Mike Lew
#26. Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)
Elizabeth Boyle
#27. [To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
Carrie Nation
#28. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen
#29. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.
Amy Hatvany
#30. If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Abraham Cahan
#31. Months and years!' he would exclaim. 'Why recon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
John Barrymore
#35. Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree.
Jane Powell
#36. Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.
Roger Angell
#37. The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.
Ernest Holmes
#39. Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#40. I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
Jacqueline Bisset
#41. The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.
Alexandre Dumas
#42. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Socrates
#43. Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.
David Deida
#44. The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
Albert Camus
#45. A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,
a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Leslie Stephen
#47. Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
#48. When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.
Dixie Waters
#49. Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
Jules Verne
#50. Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.
John Gray
#51. You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#53. Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Herodotus
#54. A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#55. It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
Joseph Addison
#56. For a man who thought it was okay to threaten a little girl and her mother? There was no second chance.
Eve Langlais
#57. It is good for a man not to touch a woman...
Anonymous
#58. It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
#59. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
#60. Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair.
Isaac Asimov
#61. I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#62. So, thought Peace, there was a wall around his heart and she wondered whether she should hoist up her skirt and scale that wall, but she knew she didn't have the right shoes on for that sort of climb because hers were too sensible for a man like Drake.
Sarah Winman
#63. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.
Helen Andelin
#65. The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.
Milt Gross
#66. Speaking of wishes, who wished for a man who would love her for her skill?
Meagan Spooner
#67. Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. "I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo's riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
George R R Martin
#68. Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
Alexandre Dumas
#69. It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Blaise Pascal
#71. I like old movies on television where a man lights a woman's cigarette. That's all they seemed to do in those old movies, the men and women. I'm normally so totally disregardless. But every time I see an old movie on television, I keep a sharp eye out for a man lighting a woman's cigarette.
Don DeLillo
#72. What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be a man by worshiping man-made gods than for idols to become divine by being adored.
Augustine Of Hippo
#73. Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
Matt Roper
#74. It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#75. And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now
Virginia Woolf
#76. In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
Plato
#77. For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. There's something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?
Joseph Boyden
#79. You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.
Vincent Nichols
#80. Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
#81. It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Theodore Parker
#82. Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Barbra Streisand
#83. That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.
Samuel Beckett
#84. What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#85. I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#86. The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Richard Whately
#87. Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
Marguerite Duras
#88. Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato
#89. A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:
John Steinbeck
#90. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?
G.K. Chesterton
#91. Mr. Beecher used to say that the first thing for a man to do, if he would succeed in life, was to be careful to "choose a good father and mother to be born of.
John C. Carlile
#92. A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
Anne Hathaway
#93. It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
Roger Bacon
#94. For a man would know the necessary choices that have to be made when one is facing one's oblivion.
Patrick Ness
#95. Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. "There's only one good use for a man like Heath Champion."
"Here we go again," Molly muttered.
Phoebe's lip curled. "Target practice.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#96. It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
Larry McMurtry
#97. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.
Mary McGrory
#98. Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
Brownie McGhee
#99. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death
Cormac McCarthy
