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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
- Measure Of A Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
- Greatest Joys
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Hurt was pretty bad. I know it's pretty terrible to besmirch the memory of a dead man, but he was really rude to me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
- Creature
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- Nov 07, 2020