- Good
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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
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020