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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
- Nov 07, 2020
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
- Keeps
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020