- Funny
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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
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
- Borne
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- Nov 07, 2020