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The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. -- Oswald Chambers
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. -- Benjamin Franklin
The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit? -- Abraham Maslow
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. -- Francis James Grimke
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. -- Francis James Grimke
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary. -- Lytton Strachey
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. -- John Wooden
There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong. -- Marvin Williams
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. -- Henry Taylor
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast. -- Simonides of Ceos
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong. -- Sam Shoemaker
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. -- Gaylord Nelson
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue. -- R. Kent Hughes
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him. -- Vaclav Havel
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man. -- Gannicus
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it. -- Tennessee Williams
Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The test of any man lies in action. -- Pindar
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. -- John Ruskin
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' -- Samuel Butler
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? -- Orison Swett Marden
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it. -- Samuel Smiles
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. -- Edgar Allan Poe
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. -- Paracelsus
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. -- John Ruskin
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. -- John Sherman Cooper
The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt. -- Carine Roitfeld
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. -- Tom Wolfe
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. -- Marc Chagall
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard. -- Jeff Ross
I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually. -- Eli Manning
Never test another man by your own weakness. -- Joseph Conrad
Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year. -- Barry Bostwick
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind! -- Adam Savage
To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie. -- C.J. Langenhoven
What a man does is the real test of what a man is. -- William Mathews
The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. -- Winston Churchill
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. -- Nevil Shute
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth. -- Felix Wantang
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. -- Richard Bach
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning. -- Aldo Leopold
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. -- Henry Ward Beecher
To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves. -- Zelda la Grange
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. -- Laurence J. Peter
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best. -- Edgar Guest
A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test. -- Anuj
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. -- Franz Grillparzer
Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test. -- Mary Slessor
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. -- Jacques Barzun
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity. -- George S. Patton
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. -- Robert Harris
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. -- E. M. Forster
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. -- Oscar Wilde
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win? -- Charles Lever
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. -- William Hazlitt
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. -- Neal Shusterman
Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess. -- J-Live
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not. -- Milan Kundera
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. -- Oscar Wilde
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. -- Douglas MacArthur
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. -- Gaylord Nelson
The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted. -- Lilian Jackson Braun
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. -- Odell Shepard
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores. -- Raheem Jarbo
I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head. -- William J. Casey
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. -- Oswald Chambers
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
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. -- Henry Ford

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