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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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020