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1. "A line is a dot that goes for a walk."

Paul Klee

categories: Art and Culture -:- Various

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2. "A literary woman’s best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "Chapters from a Life"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Marriage

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3. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

Doug Larson

categories: Memory -:- Sin and Conscience

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4. "A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Society and Solitude"

categories: Work and Laziness

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5. "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde

categories: Woman and Man -:- Love -:- Happiness

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6. "A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."

G. I. Gurdjieff

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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7. "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

Percival Arland Ussher, "An Alphabet of Aphorisms"

categories: Human -:- Life and Death

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8. "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, "To the Point"

categories: Love

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9. "A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police."

Do you know who wrote this?

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age

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10. "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

categories: Love -:- Marriage

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11. "A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

Amiri Baraka

categories: Freedom and Servitude

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12. "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

categories: Human

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13. "A man is made by the books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

categories: Education

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14. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age

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15. "A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."

Latin proverb

categories: Human -:- Love

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16. "A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."

Patrick Kavanagh, "Collected Prose"

categories: Truth and Falsity

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17. "A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects."

Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization"

categories: Human -:- Manners and Ethics

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18. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

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19. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

Irish proverb

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Love -:- Woman and Man

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20. "A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married."

Henry Louis Mencken

categories: Marriage -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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Poetry -:- Earrings -:- Bears -:- Genealogy

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21. "A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it."

Aldous Huxley, "Do What You Will"

categories: Optimism and Hope

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22. "A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

G. I. Gurdjieff

categories: Human -:- Life and Death

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23. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

categories: History and Nations -:- Life and Death -:- Various

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24. "A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."

John A. O'Brien

categories: Manners and Ethics

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25. "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid."

Michel de Montaigne

categories: Normality and Madness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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26. "A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

categories: Friendship and Hostility

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27. "A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

categories: Life and Death

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28. "A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Woman and Man

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29. "A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy."

George Savile

categories: Friendship and Hostility

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30. "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

George Moore

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Various

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31. "A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it."

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Various

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32. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

Theodore Roosevelt

categories: Law and Crime -:- Education

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33. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

George Savile

categories: Various

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34. "A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!"

Do you know who wrote this?

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Marriage

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35. "A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."

Peter da Silva

categories: Wit and Humor

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36. "A man without a friend is only half a man."

proverb

categories: Friendship and Hostility

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37. "A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

categories: Egoism -:- Family and Loneliness

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38. "A man’s fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man’s friends are his magnetisms."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Human

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39. "A man's god is that for which he lives, for which he is prepared to give his time, his energy, his money, that which stimulates him and rouses him, excites, and enthuses him."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

categories: God and Religion

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40. "A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."

Georges Clemenceau

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

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41. "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

William Faulkner

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Sin and Conscience

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42. "A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "

Alexander Smith, "Dreamthorp: Essays Written In The Country"

categories: Memory -:- Richness and Money

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43. "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

Charlie Chaplin

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Human

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44. "A man's ruin lies in his tongue."

Egyptian proverb

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Oration and Silence

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45. "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

Thomas Hardy

categories: Oration and Silence

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46. "A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God."

Donald Knuth

categories: Science and Technology

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47. "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist."

Charles Darwin

categories: Science and Technology

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48. "A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

categories: History and Nations -:- Various

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49. "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Intellect, Judgement

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50. "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn`t work if it`s not open."

Frank Zappa

categories: Intellect, Judgement

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