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Funny Sayings
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man is known by the eye, and the face discovers wisdom.
A man is lent, not given, to life.
A man is not a lord because he feeds off fine dishes.
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
A man is not known till he cometh to honor.
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
A man is often a good advisor to others and a bad advisor to himself.
A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.
A man is only as big as the things that make him mad.
A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.
A man is what he is, not what he used to be.
A man knows no more to any purpose than he practices.
A man lives long in his native place.
A man may cause his own dog to bite him.
A man may chance to bring home with him what makes him weep.
A man may force a livelihood, but cannot force fortune.
A man may know his Holy Writ and yet may grievous sins commit.
A man may live after losing his life, but not after losing his honor.
A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.
A man may lose what are his clearest rights by not demanding them.
A man may threaten yet be afraid.
A man must despise himself before others will.
A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon flies into it.
A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.
A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.
A man must plow with the oxen he has.
A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door.
A man never becomes an orator if he has something to say.
A man never fails among his own people.
A man of determination will surely succeed.
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.
A man of honor will feel ashamed by a single question to which he does not know the answer.
A man of knowledge increases strength.
A man of knowledge like a rich soil feeds, if not a world of corn, then a world of weeds.
A man of leisure will never taste the fruit of success.
A man of straw is better than a woman of gold.
A man of straw needs a woman of gold.
A man of the Zheng State buys his shoes.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
