- People
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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
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
- Good
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
- King
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020