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1002. A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1003. A man of one cow-a man of no cow

1004. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

1005. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

1006. A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

1007. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

1008. A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

1009. A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood.

1010. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

1011. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

1012. A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

1013. A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

1014. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. ---(POPE).

1015. A man sits as many risks as he runs. --Henry David Thoreau

1016. A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth--and endures all the rest. --Helen Rowland

1017. A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

1018. A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.

1019. A man surprised is half beaten.

1020. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.

1021. A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

1022. A man thinks and God laughs. --Yiddish proverb

1023. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. --George Moore

1024. A man walking across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger had come, waiting to eat him. Two mice, one white, one black, little by little began to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

1025. A man walks, God places the feet. --Yiddish proverb

1026. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

1027. A man who claimed to be a Pyschic and Wizard made a small fortune in the marketplace by pretending to know what was in store for the people who paid him for his services. He would tell them of romance or illness, fortune or famine, all with the authority of one who knows. One day, while he was proclaiming a couple's future, a man broke through the crowd and declared that the Wizard's house was on fire! At this news, the Wizard ran off as fast as he could, with the crowd quick at his heels. When they arrived at the home, they found that it was not burning at all. The man from the crowd stepped forward, and to the delight of the people, asked the Wizard, How is it that someone who so cleverly tells other people's fortunes can know so little of his own? Moral: Those who practice deception are often most easily deceived.

1028. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

1029. A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. Confucius

1030. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.--"Oscariana" by Oscar Wilde

1031. A man who fails to take his own death into account is a fool. A self-centred fool who doesn't love anyone.

1032. A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. --Richard Whately

1033. A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - confronts a trial of which you can have no conception.

1034. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

1035. A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. --Jean Jacques Rousseau

1036. A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue

1037. A man who lives in a glass house should change in basement.

1038. A man who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones.

1039. A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. --Archibald MacLeishP>

1040. A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. Benjamin Disraeli

1041. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

1042. A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite and a woman who moralises is invariably plain. --Oscar Wilde

1043. A man who really knows his own nature sets no value on himself, and take no pleasure in being praised by men.

1044. A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

1045. A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!

1046. A man who throws dirt looses ground.

1047. A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

1048. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe. -- Georges Clemenceau

1049. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.--Martin Luther King, Jr.,

1050. 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.

1051. A man whos only will is to conquer will destroy himself from within, when there is nothing left to conquer.

1052. A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. --J. Robert Oppenheimer

1053. A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out

1054. A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

1055. A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.

1056. A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. Chinese

1057. A MAN without a wife is but half a man.

1058. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

1059. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. --John Watson Foster

1060. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

1061. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

1062. A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin

1063. A man, a horse, and a dog are never weary of each other's company.

1064. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.

1065. A man's best friends are his ten fingers. -- Robert Collyer

1066. A mans' character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

1067. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. --George William Curtis

1068. A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it co --Arthur Schopenhauer

1069. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

1070. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. This is thy present world, said the Flame to the Spark.

1071. A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. --George Santayana

1072. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

1073. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. English Proverb

1074. A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. --Don Piatt

1075. A man's house is his castle. .. - James Otis

1076. A man's house is his hassle.

1077. A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. --George Bernard Shaw

1078. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. --Georges Clemenceau

1079. A man's mother is his misfortune, his wife is his fault.

1080. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him season-ably water the one and destroy the other. ---(BACON).

1081. A mans only true enemy is his self.

1082. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. --Lord Chesterfield

1083. A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. --Cicero

1084. A man's own opinion is never wrong (Italian)

1085. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heavan for?--Robert Browning

1086. A man's ruin lies in his tongue. Egyptian Proverb

1087. A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

1088. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

1089. A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

1090. A man's wealth may be superior to him.

1091. A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

1092. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. --Thomas Huxley

1093. A man's worth should be reckoned by what he is, not by what he has. ---(HENRY W. BEECHER).

1094. A mask of gold hides all deformities. -- Thomas Dekker

1095. A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. "The Tao is embodied in all software -- regardless of how insignificant," said the master. "Is Tao in a hand-held calculator?" asked the novice. "It is," came the reply."Is the Tao in a video game?" continued the novice. "It is even in a video game," said the master. "And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?" The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. "The lesson is over for today," he said.---from "The Tao of Programming"

1096. A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

1097. A May flood never did good.

1098. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. --Mary Kay Ash

1099. A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

1100. A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.