- Business
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
- Proposes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man proposes, and God disposes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't dream of joining Man City as a professional one day, or representing England, because I didn't know that was even possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020