Top 100 Man Once Quotes
#1. Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Elbert Hubbard
#2. A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !
Cameron Jace
#3. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
#4. I had never tried other drugs... But how can any of them with their effects transcend the intoxication of a first love?! It swallowed me unexpectedly. It tied me to a man once and for all. It blinded me... Disarmed me... And made me lose my mind.
Rom Amor
#5. God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.
John Bertram Phillips
#6. [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.
John Steinbeck
#7. I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.
George R R Martin
#8. A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.
Ken Singleton
#9. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
Jonathan Maberry
#10. You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. 'Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele' You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live.
Thus it has been spoken.
Lani Wendt Young
#11. As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
Al Yankovic
#12. A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#14. A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair
Charles Blair
#15. A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family
Eric Kripke
#16. The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.
I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, Fuck subtle.
Jim Butcher
#17. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.
Euell Gibbons
#18. A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.
Pittacus Lore
#19. I knew a man once who said, Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.
Russell Crowe
#20. You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.
Mario Draghi
#22. Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#23. Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Jessica Clare
#24. If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
#25. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#26. I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood.. It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them.
Cliff Floyd
#27. A man once said, "There are only two questions man can ask himself that mean anything. Why did God create the world? And what do I do next?" ...
Brian Michael Bendis
#28. A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
Chuck Klosterman
#29. A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
Frank Zappa
#30. A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.
Mark Frost
#31. A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.
Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
#32. A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.
Frans G. Bengtsson
#33. Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.
Eddie Lenihan
#34. A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'
Michael Stipe
#35. Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, What if the world was round?
Jeremy Smith
#36. Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those."
"Jesus?"
"No, Bruce Springsteen.
Cecelia Ahern
#37. Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.
Coleman Barks
#39. I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.
Ruth Rendell
#40. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.
Cameron Jace
#41. A wise man once said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he was someone else ...
Cameron Jace
#42. Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes
#43. A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come.
Vicki Green
#44. The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
Michael Lewis
#45. A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Laini Taylor
#46. If lies can save a man once, truth can save him twice.
Anonymous
#47. A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time. -Spider Jerusalem
Warren Ellis
#48. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.
Anuj
#49. As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.
Mike Brady
#50. If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
Barry Hannah
#51. I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
Ashwin Sanghi
#52. Something strange and chemical was happening to the Gray Man. Once, he'd been stabbed with a screwdriver - Phillips head, bright blue handle - and falling in love with Maura Sargent was exactly the same.
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. Tragedies can contain some of life's greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, 'You seek problems because you need their gifts.' Why would you rob someone of these benefits?
Brownell Landrum
#54. When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
Halldor Laxness
#56. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
Lee Child
#57. A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.
Daina Chaviano
#58. A man once believed he could fly - and he did.
Another believed he could walk on the moon - and he did.
Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true?
Why not see the stars as reachable?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
Tanya Masse
#60. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
K.J. Parker
#61. Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
John Updike
#62. There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away
Cassandra Clare
#63. A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
#64. You could've warned me." Jason's frown was likewise focused on the old man once again. "You both need to pay better attention," Sensei said. "I didn't think I needed to explain that glowing metal is hot.
Kyle Timmermeyer
#65. When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
E.W. Howe
#66. He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like
Daniel Gottlieb
#68. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.
R. Scott Bakker
#69. A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Wendy Mass
#70. The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#72. The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
Horace Mann
#73. A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
Celeste Young
#74. He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.
Karen Marie Moning
#75. I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
#76. A man once told me, money was the pathway to success; he was the poorest man i know.
Nikki Rowe
#77. A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also learnt how to make a really good yogurt although this is not a skill I plan to employ at this point in time.
Terry Pratchett
#78. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
D.H. Lawrence
#79. She's different."
"Everyone is different."
"Then let's say I like the ways in which she's different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it's how we run that defines us. And if I have to run, I think I'd like to go where she's going.
Michael J. Sullivan
#80. Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.
James Jones
#81. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.
Matthew Diamond
#82. A wise man once told me that the place where they make law is the place where they're the least likely to obey it,
Larry Correia
#83. Oh Jesus, oh Zeus, oh Odin," Anya dropped the stick and started shaking. "Oh shit." The bird spread out its wings, which slowly transformed back into arms and the rest followed until it was a man once more.
Amy Kuivalainen
#84. Loves Judge
A man once hunted;
saved by a woman;
summoned for past judgment,
could only say,
"For love, it was all worth it.
Delano Johnson
#85. My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.
Raymond E. Feist
#86. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.
Jes Fuhrmann
#87. A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?
Denzel Washington
#88. Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.
Arun Gandhi
#89. A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.
Stanley Coren
#90. Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
Samuel Johnson
#91. 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
#92. Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at his throat, even fear vanishes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Simeon Strunsky
#94. The man he'd once been wasn't a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had.
James S.A. Corey
#95. He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once
in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe
into anything he wishes.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Sammy Cahn
#97. Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
William Shakespeare
#98. A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Homer
#99. Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence.
from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#100. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?
Ian Weir
