Another Man Quotes - Page 6

• It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Loneliness, Eye

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.167, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Blood

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• Cute? You think he's cute? What's cute about him? ... Well, yes. He's got that smile, that really bad boy smile, and a great backside. On page eighty of the relationship manual, it clearly states, you cannot look at another man's backside, especially if you think it's great.

  Christine Feehan

  Cute, Boys, Men

  Christine Feehan (2004). “Mind Game”, p.245, Penguin

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• Always wanting another man than your own.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• Never test another man by your own weakness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Weakness, Tests

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• There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

  Walker Percy

  Pain, Men, Looks

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Wings, Vision

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• One man's fish is another man's poisson.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Fishes, One Man

  Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Years, Long

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• I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Men, Echoes

  "Fictional character: Humbert". "Lolita", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

  George Eliot

  Men, Order, Littles

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.228, Booklassic

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• Frustration filled his features. "Rose I've done a lot of bad things, most of which I can never fix or find redemption for. My only choice now, if I want to reclaim my life, is to go forward, stopping evil and doing what's right. And what is NOT right is taking a woman from another man, a man I like and respect. I'll steal cars. I'll break into houses. But there are lines I WILL not cross, no matter what I—

  Richelle Mead

  Frustration, Men, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.1872, Penguin UK

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• Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Reflection, Men, Soul

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• One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

  Peter Cameron

  Men, Nonsense, One Man

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.101, Macmillan

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• Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

  John Lydon

  Angel, Men, Clouds

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• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Men, Hours

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Confidence, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1912*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "75 Funniest Jokes of All Time". "GQ Magazine", June 1999.

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• One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Men, Fancy

  "First Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy". Book by Andrew Bailey (p. 300), August 6, 2004.

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• One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

  Josh Radnor

  Uplifting, Men, One Man

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One man's folly is another man's wife.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Men

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

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• Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Realization, Opinion

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• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

  Tony Judt

  Hurt, Writing, Men

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