Source: Inés of My Soul
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 31
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter V : Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 107
“He can be a charming man, but he can be quite nasty too. Because this is what he does.”
About Marco van Basten after the fall-out with Mark van Bommel
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
Source: Quintana of Charyn
This quote is itself quoting Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman in the film Grey Owl (1999)
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”
Source: The Wizard
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.”
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
