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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
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.
- One-Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020