- 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
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
- Spiritual
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020