- Poor
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
- Storm
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
- Nov 07, 2020
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020