- 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
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is nature's sole mistake.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
- Manifest
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- Nov 07, 2020