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A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.

– John HeywoodRate it:

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

– John C. MaxwellRate it:

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

– Theodore RooseveltRate it:

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

– Sir Walter RaleighRate it:

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

– Anne Louise Germaine de StaëlRate it:

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.

– Oliver HerfordRate it:

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

– Sacha GuitryRate it:

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

– William FeatherRate it:

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

– Havelock EllisRate it:

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.

– John BarrymoreRate it:

A man must take responsibility, according to your culture and the limit of your pocket. Don't try to show off when you have nothing left.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

– Mark TwainRate it:

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

– Knights of PythagorasRate it:

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

– Dorothea KentRate it:

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

– Johathan EdwardsRate it:

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

– Sir James GloverRate it:

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

– Jacques MaritainRate it:

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

– MaghaRate it:

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

– Ezra PoundRate it:

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

– James JoyceRate it:

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

– James JoyceRate it:

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