- Golf
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
- Frown
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020