- 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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an angry man.
- High Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's, where I met people who introduced me to virtually all the elements of my future.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need a man with a good sense of humor and a kind heart.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked what it was like to be a woman clerking for Justice Scalia. 'Much like being a man clerking for him' is my easy answer. Justice Scalia believed in one simple principle: That law came to the court as an 'is,' not an 'ought.'
- Differing
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- Nov 07, 2020