- 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
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
- Blocking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- Nov 07, 2020
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
- Grievous
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- Nov 07, 2020