Posts Tagged “man”

• A man without money is like a bow without arrows. ~ Indian Proverb
• A man without money is like a ship without sails. ~ Dutch Proverb
• A man without money is like a wolf without teeth. ~ French Proverb
• A moneyless man goes fast through the market. ~ Danish Proverb
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ~ Lana Turner
• A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture. ~ Spanish Proverb
• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ~ Jonathan Swift
• A woman prefers a man without money to money without a man. ~ Greek Proverb
• Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it. ~ Author Unknown
• Don’t marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper. ~ Scottish Proverb
• God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. ~ Austin O’Malley
• Good management is better than good income. ~ Portuguese Proverb
• He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. – Author Unknown
• I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ~ Judy Garland
• I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. ~ Themistocles
• If a man is after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a playboy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a never-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he’s a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.~ Vic Oliver
• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. ~ Charles Baudelaire
• Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars. ~ Author Unknown
• Money has never made man happy, nor will it; there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ~ Benjamin Franklin
• Money makes the man. ~ Aristodemus
• Money without brains is always dangerous. ~ Napoleon Hill
• One who thinks that money can do everything is likely to do anything for money. ~ Hasidic Proverb
• Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. ~ Austin O’Malley
• The darkest day of any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. ~ Horace Greeley
• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous ~ Orison Swett Marden
• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ~ Orison Swett Marden
• There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it. ~ Ogden Nash
• Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. ~ John Wicker
• With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man. ~ Chinese Proverb
• With money you can make the dead speak; without it you can’t even keep the deaf quiet. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Without money one cannot go anywhere, not even to church. ~ Croatian Proverb
• You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. ~  Tennessee Williams
• Yes! ready money is Aladdin’s lamp. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ~ Chinese Proverb

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey

Behind every great man there is a great woman; and behind that woman is his wife. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every man is a good woman. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man are a few ex-wives and a line of new prospects. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man there are a lot of unsuccessful years. ~  Bob Brown

Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear. ~ Harold Coffin

Behind every successful man, there is a woman – And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. ~ Author Unknown

Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. ~ Sim York Soo

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ~ Arthur E. Waite

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ~ Lord Dewar

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ~ W. Clement Stone
• Every man after his fashion. ~ Traditional Proverb
• Every man assumes the colors of his surroundings. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
• Every man believes that he has greater possibilities. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~ Brave Heart Movie
• Every man for himself and God for us all. ~ Spanish Proverb
• Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. ~ Traditional Proverb
• Every man forges his own destiny. ~ Latvian Proverb
• Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. ~ Persian Proverb
• Every man has a fool up his sleeve. ~ United States Proverb
• Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings. ~ James Gibbons
• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ~ John Locke
• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. ~ Jean Paul Richter
• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ~ Samuel Johnson
• Every man has a sane spot somewhere. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every man has one black patch, and some have two. ~ United States Proverb
• Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ~ William Saroyan
• Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every man is a fool in some man’s opinion. ~ Spanish Proverb
• Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. ~ The Holy Bible
• Every man is a prince in his own bed. ~ Malawian Proverb
• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ~ William Ellery Channing
• Every man is a whole volume, just dying to be read. ~ Author Unknown
• Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
• Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ~ Francis Herbert Hedge
• Every man is his own chief enemy. ~ Anacharsis
• Every man is his own worst enemy. ~ Traditional Proverb
• Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. ~ Euripides
• Every man is occasionally what he ought to be perpetually. ~ American Proverb
• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ~ Jane Austen
• Every man is the guardian of his own honor. ~ Indian Proverb
• Every man is the king of his own beard. ~ Iranian Proverb
• Every man is the son of his own works. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
• Every man knows that he must die, but no one believes it. ~ Yiddish Proverb
• Every man likes the smell of his own farts. ~ Icelandic Proverb
• Every man loves what he is good at. ~ Thomas Shadwell
• Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. ~ Boethius
• Every man must get to Heaven his own way. ~ Frederick the Great
• Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ~ Iris Murdoch
• Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ~ Sextus Propertius
• Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ~ George Bernard Shaw
• Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Every man paddles his own canoe. ~ Frederick Marryat
• Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord. ~ The Holy Bible
• Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar. ~ Edward H. Harriman
• Every man stamps his value on himself… man is made great or small by its own will. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. ~ Jean Anouilh
• Every man thinks his own thoughts are best. ~ Afghan Proverb
• Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kissed his cow. ~ Scottish Proverb
• Every man to his trade. ~ Traditional Proverb
• Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal. ~ Harvey Fergusson
• Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature — and another woman to help him forget them. ~ Helen Rowland
• Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~ William James
• Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. ~ Ellen Gould White
• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. ~ Leslie Stephen
• Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson
• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
• Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~ Brendan Francis
• Every poor man has a dry throat and wet boots. ~ Yiddish Proverb
• Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
• Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them…~ Edgar Watson Howe
• Every wise man is afraid of a fool. ~ French Proverb

• A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.~ Spanish Proverb
• A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.~ Dutch Proverb
• A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple.~ Danish Proverb
• A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.~ Chinese Proverb
• A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.~ Traditional Proverb
• A good wife makes a good husband.~ Wives Quotes
• A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife.~ Cambodian Proverb
• A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.~ Author Unknown
• All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
• A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. ~ Thomas Fuller
• A man too good for the world is no good for his wife.~ Yiddish Proverb
• An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.~ Sacha Guitry
• An obedient wife commands her husband.~ Benjamin Disraeli
• A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.~ Author Unknown
• A sad bride makes a glad wife.~ Dutch Proverb
• Ask for your wife’s advice and then do the opposite.~ Arabian Proverb
• As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.~ Iranian Proverb
• A wife is frightened of her first husband and a husband is frightened of his second wife.~ Serbian Proverb
• A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.~ Russian Proverb
• A woman is attractive when she is somebody else’s wife.~ Zimbabwean Proverb
• Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.~ Hubert H. Humphrey
• Better a bad wife than an empty house.~ Ivorian Proverb
• Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.~ Thomas Fuller
• Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye.~ English Proverb
• Choose a wife to please yourself, not others.~ Romanian Proverb
• Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.~ Traditional Proverb
• Complain about the house where the husband is the wife.~ Romanian Proverb
• Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.~ Chinese Proverb
• Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.~ Czechoslovakian Proverb
• Do not choose your wife on your way to the church.~ Estonian Proverb
• For whom does the blind man’s wife paint herself? ~ English Proverb
• Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.~ Estonian Proverb
• He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.~ Thomas Fuller
• He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.~ Spanish Proverb
• He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.~ Bosnian Proverb
• If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.~ Gary Smalley
• If a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame.~ Arabian Proverb
• If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.~ Anne Bradstreet
• If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.~ Italian Proverb
• If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.~ Yiddish Proverb
• If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.~ Spanish Proverb
• If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.~ Thomas Fuller
• I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.~ Rodney Dangerfield
• I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.~ David Bissonette
• It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.~ Hungarian Proverb
• I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.~ Henny Youngman
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.~ Jane Austen
• It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.~ Dolores Ibarruri
• Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife’s clothes. ~ Thomas Dewar
• Laughing wife, crying purse.~ South American Proverb
• Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.~ Jim Backus
• Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.~ Zig Ziglar
• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.~ Winston Churchill
• My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met!~ Rodney Dangerfield
• My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time. ~ Lee Trevino
• Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where people hear or see it.~ Dutch Proverb
• Never strike your wife, even with a flower.~ Hindu Proverb
• Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.~ Scottish Proverb
• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.~ Harold Macmillan
• No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.~ Author Unknown
• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.~ Samuel Johnson
• One God, one wife, but many friends.~ Dutch Proverb
• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.~ Groucho Marx
• Only take away the wife of a strong man when he is out.~ Ugandan Proverb
• Pick your wife in the kitchen.~ Japanese Proverb
• Pretty wife, old wine — many friends.~ Bulgarian Proverb
• She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.~ Hitopadesa
• Show me your wife and I will tell you what kind of a husband she has.~ Catalonian Proverb
• Teach your son in the front garden and your wife on the pillow.~ Chinese Proverb
• That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.~ George Eliot
• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
• The best or the worst for a man is his wife.~ Spanish Proverb
• The devil sweetens another man’s wife with a spoonful of honey.~ French Proverb
• The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog.~ Turkish Proverb
• The husband’s mother is the wife’s devil.~ German Proverb
• The lover of a student does not always become the wife of a graduate.~ Mexican Proverb
• The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him.~ Traditional Proverb
• The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.~ Portuguese Proverb
• There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.~ American Proverb
• There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.~ Clifford Odets
• There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.~ Russian Proverb
• The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.~ Cyril Connolly
• The wife cries before the wedding, the husband after.~ Luxembourg Proverb
• The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.~ Russian Proverb
• The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.~ Hungarian Proverb
• The wife who always insists on the last word often has it.~ Kenneth Hutchin
• The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.~ Armenian Proverb
• This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.~ William Shakespeare
• Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.~ Author Unknown
• To truly love your wife, leave her alone every once in a while.~ Malaysian Proverb
• Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.~ William A. Sunday
• Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.~ German Proverb
• What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.~ Phyllis Schlafly
• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.~ Sacha Guitry
• When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife.~ Swiss Proverb
• When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket.~ Vietnamese Proverb
• When the husband earns well, the wife spends well.~ Dutch Proverb
• Where there is no wife, there is no home.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
• Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.~ Chinese Proverb
• Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.~ Egyptian Proverb
• Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life.~ Dutch Proverb
• Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.~ Groucho Marx
• Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
• Your wife’s eyes are in your purse.~ Romanian Proverb
• Your wife and your wheelbarrow are two things that you should never lend to anyone.~ Luxembourg Proverb

• A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.~ Cher
• Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses’. ~ John Lennon
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.~ Plato
• Attraction is not a choice.~ David DeAngelo
• A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children.~ Murphy’s Laws of Sex
• Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.~ Rita Mae Brown
• Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.~ Mae West
• Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
• I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.~ Wendy Liebman

• I date this girl for two years—and then the nagging starts: ‘I wanna know your name…~ Mike Binder
• If you’ve been dating a man for four months and you haven’t met any of his friends, you are not his girlfriend.~ Chris Rock
• If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.~ Jennifer Lopez
• I have such poor vision I can date anybody.~ Garry Shandling
• It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.~ George Bernard Shaw
• It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ~ Dating quotes
• Let’’s face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night; The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you”ll end up naked at the end of it. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
• My boyfriend used to ask his mother, ‘How can I find the right woman for me?’ and she would answer, ‘Don’t worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.~ Dating Quotes
• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain. ~ Mae West
• Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary.~ I Ching
• Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.~ Robert A. Heinlein
• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.~ Jim Bishop
• What’s nice about my dating life is that I don’t have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I’m marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.~ Julia Roberts
• When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn’t get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.~ Scott Wolf
• When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows. ~ Frederike Ryder
• Whenever I date a guy, I think, “Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? ~ Rita Rudner
• Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer