- Men
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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.
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
- Castle
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- Nov 07, 2020
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
- Grocery
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- Nov 07, 2020
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an intelligent man but I don't feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020