Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Ham., i. 5.
A man may spit in his nieve and do little. Sc. Pr.
A man may survive distress, but not disgrace. Gael. Pr.
A man / More sinn'd against than sinning. King Lear, iii. 2.
A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. Pr. 20
A man must become wise at his own expense. Montaigne.
A man must be healthy before he can be holy. Mme. Swetchine.
A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt. Schopenhauer.
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Johnson.
A man must seek his happiness and inward 25 peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. W. von Humboldt.
A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Emerson.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. Emerson.
A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes or No. Carlyle.
A man must wait for the right moment. Schopenhauer.
A man never feels the want of what it never 30 occurs to him to ask for. Schopenhauer.
A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell.
A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. Chamfort.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head. Coleridge.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young.
A man often pays dear for a small frugality. 35 Emerson.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. La Bruyère.
A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. La Roche.
A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. Amiel.
A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe.
A man protesting against error is on the way 40 towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Carlyle.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Bacon.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. Johnson.
A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. Carlyle.
A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness, 45 and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass. Schopenhauer.
A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either. Carlyle.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it. J. G. Holland.
A man who has nothing to do is the devil's playfellow. J. G. Holland.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own. Goethe.
A man who reads much becomes arrogant and 50 pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful. Lichtenberg.
A man will love or hate solitude—that is, his own society—according as he is himself worthy or worthless. Schopenhauer.
A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best. Emerson.
A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road. Carlyle.
A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. John Sterling.
A man's a man for a' that. Burns. 55
A man's aye crousest in his ain cause. Sc. Pr.
A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife. Pr.
A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet. Monckton Milnes.
A man's fate is his own temper. Disraeli.
A man's friends belong no more to him than 60 he to them. Schopenhauer.
A man's gift makes room for him. Pr.
A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. Ruskin.
A man's house is his castle. Pr.
A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc. Emerson.
A man's task is always light if his heart is 65 light. Lew Wallace.
A man's virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct. Pascal.
A man's walking is a succession of falls. Pr.
A man's wife is his blessing or his bane. Gael. Pr.
Amantes, amentes—In love, in delirium. Ter.
Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est—The 5 quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love. Ter.
A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's. Saville.
A ma puissance—To my power. M.
Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur—To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. Faber.
[Greek: Hamartôlai … en anthrôpoisin hepontai thnêtois]—Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. Theognis.
Ambigendi locus—Reason for questioning or 10 doubt.
Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces—To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. Virg.
Ambition is not a vice of little people. Montaigne.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. T. D. English.
Ambos oder Hammer—One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr.
Ame damnée—Mere tool, underling. Fr. 15
Ame de boue—Base, mean soul. Fr.
Amende honorable—Satisfactory apology; reparation. Fr.
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