- Brains
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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
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a particularly dicey moment in my own love life when I was interviewing Rupert Murdoch a number of years ago, I tried to get some advice from him about, well, about anything a man with three wives, the latest the age of his children, might offer.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does the man match the charge? To be the kind of man who would be accused of being so gross is guilt enough.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than any other president, save perhaps John F Kennedy, whose father ran a film studio, and Ronald Reagan, a leading man and governor of California, Trump is on a buddy basis with media moguls, a speed dialer with the heads of studios and media conglomerates.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is a family man.
- Disturbance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially when it involves real estate development, is the disturbance of many faceless men. And a faceless man is a difficult enemy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man's comedy: they're not crazy; they're not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
- Lemons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I saw my father, he was chained. Gone was the mirage of the invincible man, the man who would protect me once I found him. At the age of 12, I finally saw my father - in an orange jumpsuit, looking weak and vulnerable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had an eye for what looks good on a man. But I've not always found it easy to find clothes that look good on me.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020