Top 100 Give A Man Quotes
#1. Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.
Mike Gayle
#2. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.
Maya Banks
#3. You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt.
- Howard Roark
Ayn Rand
#4. Give a man time enough and he generally finds something absurd to say - at least, that's my experience.
Sydney Horler
#5. My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission.
Jim Butcher
#6. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#7. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!
Cameron Semmens
#8. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
George Sutherland
#9. Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
Immanuel Kant
#10. [A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
John Le Carre
#13. 'You know that saying, give a man enough rope?' When Matt nodded, Howard continued. 'I can assure you the person who came up with it didn't know Aubrey. You give him enough rope and he'll tie you to a chair with it.'
J.L. Langley
#14. Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.
Stephen King
#15. Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full of
prayers and you get a room full of corpses.
Kevis Hendrickson
#16. People love to say, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing.
Trevor Noah
#17. Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.
Ray Bradbury
#18. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Scott Adams
#19. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself
Meg Cabot
#20. If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises ...
Jacob M. Appel
#21. Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
Henry Ford
#23. Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee
#24. To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.
Michel Houellebecq
#25. You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#26. Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, but - " "Give a woman a vibrator, and she'll orgasm for life. I get it.
Penny Reid
#27. It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
David Gower
#28. Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
#29. To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
Confucius
#31. You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
Benjamin Franklin
#32. Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.
Cameron Semmens
#33. If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.
Dave Barry
#34. Your wife's willingness to allow a daughter to grow inside her who had, by all laws of probability, a fifty-percent chance of inheriting your face, is something you should view as a compliment. Perhaps the greatest compliment a woman can give a man.
Herman Koch
#35. Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
Woody Hayes
#36. A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.
Tony Gaskins
#37. 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
#39. A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.
Anne Desclos
#41. Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson
#42. Give a man your attention
Lose his
Ignore a man
Gain his attention
K.C. Rhoads
#43. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#44. Give a man a fish shop
and he'll flounder.
Teach a man to manage a fish shop,
and he'll learn to fill it!
Cameron Semmens
#45. Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.
Waseem Latif
#46. Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act
Josh Stern
#47. Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
Antonio Tarver
#48. Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.
Marcus Aurelius
#49. The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
Ben Jonson
#50. Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.
James Wilcox
#51. God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman.
Alice Randall
#52. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
#53. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.
Craig Stone
#54. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year.
James J. Cramer
#55. The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
Luke Scull
#56. You've heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and you've made him happy for a day. Teach a man to f**k and you've made him happy for a lifetime.
Roberto Hogue
#57. Be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.
Nikki Rowe
#58. Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
Max Lucado
#59. Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
Theodore Roosevelt
#60. Give a man the secure possession of bleak rocks," Arthur Young said in Travels in 1787, "and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years of lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert ...
Bernd Heinrich
#61. ...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.
Patricia Engel
#62. Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
Susan Howatch
#63. There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
George Horace Lorimer
#64. My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?
Milton Berle
#65. Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
Raoul Walsh
#66. Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen
#67. They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.
Craig Ferguson
#68. How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?
Pearl Bailey
#69. Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
Jack Kirby
#70. There's this to say of love and breath
They give a man a taste for death.
A.E. Housman
#71. The more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.
Joe Abercrombie
#72. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
#73. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
Aristotle.
#74. Give a man a teacher
and he'll learn many a thing.
Teach a man to learn
and he'll learn from everything.
Cameron Semmens
#75. Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.
Mae West
#76. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Arthur Young
#77. Give a man a chance to save a damsel before you get all upset." He
Aria Cole
#78. When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow Wilson
#79. The cookie is the critical part. It's a word I created for sex and you've got to give a man all three things. If you miss one out, he is going to find it somewhere else.
Steve Harvey
#80. We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more important than the democracy it declares.
G.K. Chesterton
#81. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.
Mike Breen
#82. Give a man a beer, the remote and a La-Z-Boy and he's a happy camper! All Things Caveman humor cartoon book will help you understand that hairy guy beside you.
Laurie Foxx
#83. The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Novalis
#84. When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
Zig Ziglar
#85. An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
Joseph Addison
#86. Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.
Stephen Colbert
#87. To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
#89. Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.
Robert Baden-Powell
#90. It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
Martha Ostenso
#92. Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Lewis E. Lawes
#93. Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
Mark Twain
#94. Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.
Teresa Mummert
#95. These kisses ... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything she could give a man if he was brave enough to accept. Kiss by kiss, she was baring herself to the soul.
Tessa Dare
#96. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
Desmond Tutu
#98. Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona
Karen Marie Moning
#99. The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
