All Quotes and Proverbs

"A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely."

Anuj Somany

Human

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 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

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt "To the Point"

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love

Marriage

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

Joseph Conrad

Human

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Amiri Baraka

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Human

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Barrymore

Dreams and Desires

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Latin Proverbs

Human

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Irish Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Marriage

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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)

History and Nations

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John A. O'Brien

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Michel de Montaigne

Normality and Madness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war."

Sir James Glover

Courage and Fear

Human

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Life and Death

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Oration and Silence

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Moore

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Nora Ephron "Scribble Scrabble"

Family and Loneliness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

Education

Law and Crime

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

George Savile

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Intellect, Judgement

Marriage

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

Louis Nizer

Art and Culture

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Peter da Silva

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Various Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Egoism

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Friendship and Hostility

Human

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Lloyd-Jones-Martyn

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Memory

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Egyptian Proverbs

Defeates and Mistakes

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Thomas Hardy

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Charlie Chaplin

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Donald Knuth

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Charles Darwin

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A merry heart makes a long life."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)