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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
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking the rest of year.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never met a man I didn't want to fight.
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- Nov 07, 2020