- Always
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all you are is a pro wrestler, on some level you eventually become, I feel like, a mindless drone. It's tough, man, if you're on the road and you're doing 200, 250 shows a year. It starts to take a toll on your personal life and who are you as a human.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020