Where A Man Spends His Time Quotes

#1. Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

Martin Luther

#2. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.

Bryan Q. Miller

#3. Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

Sarah Weeks

#4. You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's
in trouble.

Christine Feehan

#5. Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

Nathanael West

#6. The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

H.L. Mencken

#7. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

#8. Under the seams runs the pain.

Anne Carson

#9. The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#10. You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.

Alison Gaylin

#11. That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Brian Clough

#12. It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone.

Sherman Alexie

#13. The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Seneca.

#14. The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Samuel Johnson

#15. The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

Jose Bergamin

#16. As we approach the Golden Age, the veils shall be removed and the people of the Earth shall become aware of the people of the Universe.

Edgar Cayce

#17. Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Dale Carnegie

#18. All my wealth is in my memories.

Ruth Draper

#19. My only challenge was to tell my truth, man ... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

Lenny Bruce

#20. If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Roger Rosenblatt

#21. Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be".

Jennifer Chiaverini

#22. The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.

Ramsay MacDonald

#23. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Josh McDowell

#26. The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.

Seneca.

#27. How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Etty Hillesum

#28. It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Marilynne Robinson

#29. I gave him my best Whatever look. It usually makes guys back off. Actually, it usually makes them run for the hills, but this one just gets closer.

Romily Bernard

#30. Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind.
Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself.
Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation.

Gian Kumar

#31. My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

Robert Sean Leonard

#32. The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Bill Cosby

#33. Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Ann Patchett

#34. When you slay a lion do it in full view of the jungle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. A diligent man spends his time in constant work.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

Vincent Van Gogh

#37. He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.

Agatha Christie

#38. A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

#39. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them do what they are supposed to do anyway. Truman

David McCullough

#40. A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

John F. Kennedy