Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

A man canna wive and thrive the same year. Sc. Pr.

A man can never be too much on his guard 55 when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses. D'Alembert.

A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. John Baptist.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment. Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters.

A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. Pr.

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

A man dishonoured is worse than dead. Cervantes. 60

A man does not represent a fraction, but a whole number; he is complete in himself. Schopenhauer.

A man hears only what he understands. Goethe.

A man he was to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Goldsmith.