Another Man Quotes - Page 7

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  O. Henry

  Men, Hands, Dollars

  1908 The Gentle Grafter,'The Octopus Marooned'.

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• Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Pain, Grief, Struggle

  Alexandre Dumas, David Coward (2008). “The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.131, Oxford University Press

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• This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Father, Men, Forever

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.

  Gene Wolfe

  Book, Men, Wind

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• Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Brain, Say Anything

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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• I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Cards, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?

  Janet Fitch

  Pain, Men, Judging

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• One man's pornography is another man's theology.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Theology, Pornography

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 21, 2013

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• Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Madness, Knows

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• come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Hurt, Men, Sight

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• You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Grieving, Winning, Men

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• I've never met another man I'd rather be.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Mets

  "Bukowski: Born into This". Documentary, Biography, 2003.

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• A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Men, Shantaram, Enough

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• She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Joy, Imagine

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.119, Penguin

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• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

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• He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

  Sheila Heti

  Men, Want, Teach

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Mines

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• No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Duty, Obligation

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Irony, Prisoner

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Solitude, Saying No

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

  Anthony Charles Richards

  Time, Motivation, Men

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• The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Profound, Mystery

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.62, Image

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• Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

  Joseph Jekyll

  Best Friend, Men, Decay

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