- Mind
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I picked Tony Bellew because he is the man that takes the biggest challenges. He is not the usual type of fighter that will come, see how hard it is, and quit. He will come to fight until the end. These are the kind of fights that the world wants to see.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
- Fellow Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020