- Mother
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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
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020