- Selfish
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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
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020