- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man with God is always in the majority.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- Nov 07, 2020
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020