- 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.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020