- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kevin McCarthy is a good man.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
- Sacrifice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!
- Nov 07, 2020
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It’s every man for himself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020