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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


901. A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.

902. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

903. A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

904. A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. --J. P. Morgan

905. A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will soon be a man.

906. A man and a woman were arguing over which gender was of superior character. As they walked and quarreled they happened upon a statue of a man holding up the Earth. See there! exclaimed the man, Surely men are superior to women, as this artwork depicts a man holding up the world! The woman regarded the statue for a moment and said That proves nothing at all, for if it had been sculpted by a woman, she would have made a woman holding up the weight of the world! Moral: Consider the source of the evidence before believing it.

907. A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty

908. A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.

909. A man born blind does not know he is blind until someone tells him so.

910. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

911. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her.

912. A man can DIE but once.

913. A man can do no more than he can.

914. A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

915. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.--Arthur Schoperhauer

916. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

917. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. --Gilbert K. Chesterton

918. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

919. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

920. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde

921. A man cannot GIVE what he hasn't got.

922. A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time.

923. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

924. A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end - and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka. --Yiddish proverb

925. A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion.

926. A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.--Alec Waugh

927. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

928. A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. - Alexander Smith

929. A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. --J.Pierpoint Morgan

930. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

931. A man has got to know his limitations. in the movie, The Enforcer

932. A man has often cut a rod to beat himself

933. A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

934. A man in debt is so far a slave. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

935. A man in love is a fool, and an old man in love is the greatest fool of all.

936. A man in the house is worth two in the street.

937. A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of , and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright, american architect

938. A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

939. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

940. A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. --Joseph Conrad

941. A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

942. A man is as good as he has to be; a woman as bad as she dares.

943. A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

944. A man is better than his birth.

945. A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

946. A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.

947. A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and Something in his pants react to a certain woman.

948. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.

949. A man is known by his owncompany.

950. A man is known by the company he avoids.

951. A man is known by the company he keeps.

952. A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age. --Anonymous

953. A man is known by the silence he keeps.--Oliver Herford

954. A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does; but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

955. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

956. A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

957. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

958. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. -- Jean Rostand

959. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. Elbert Hubbard

960. A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

961. A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin Proverb

962. A man is only a man, but a good bicycle is a ride.

963. A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

964. A man is related to all nature.

965. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

966. A man is shy in another man's corner

967. A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. --Ovid

968. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

969. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.--H. Mathews

970. A man is weal or woe as he thinks himself so.

971. A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. --Raymond Hitchcock

972. A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

973. A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. --Israel Zangwill

974. A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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

976. A man may be his own ruin

977. A man may bear till his back break.

978. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

979. A man may have no religion, and yet be moral.

980. A man may live after losing his life but not after losing his honour.

981. A man may love his house well, though he ride not on the ridge. (Does not proclaim it from the house-top).!

982. A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is.

983. A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man. --Robert Louis Stevenson

984. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. --Joseph Addison

985. A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

986. A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.--Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson: The Man, The Movement, The Myth,

987. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

988. A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

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

990. A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.

991. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. --Jean Paul Richter

992. A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.

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

994. 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.'

995. A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage.

996. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

997. A man of confidence never has to explain himself.....he just knows.

998. A man of courage is also full of faith.

999. A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. --George Herbert

1000. A man of love...enjoys whatsoever brings glory to God and promotes peace and goodwill among men.


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