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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
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man and to be a good husband. Not only does he have to take care of his own family, but the state of Texas.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020