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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
- Distortion
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- Nov 07, 2020
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
- Nov 07, 2020
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020